Not familiar with the motherboard or its performance specifications, but I would say this:
If you can increase you're budget, get on the Intel road wagon. The Core and Penryn architecture are here, and Nahalem promises to punish AMD/ATi even more. The new Phenom AMD chips can't put up a fight against a Core 2 Quad, let alone the new Penryn variations. Their clocks are a full GHz below that of their Intel rivals, which makes two full GHz below if you overclock the Intel chips to within an inch of life.
Out of the two, the processor and the graphics card, the processor is definatly the one in need of an upgrade. If you can't increase your budget at all, buy an AMD Athlon X2 5000+. It should be cheap enough for you to buy, and it is certainly leagues better than the budget chip you seem to be using there. On a tight budget, that is probably what I'd do in your situation too.
' Wrote:Not familiar with the motherboard or its performance specifications, but I would say this:
If you can increase you're budget, get on the Intel road wagon. The Core and Penryn architecture are here, and Nahalem promises to punish AMD/ATi even more. The new Phenom AMD chips can't put up a fight against a Core 2 Quad, let alone the new Penryn variations. Their clocks are a full GHz below that of their Intel rivals, which makes two full GHz below if you overclock the Intel chips to within an inch of life.
Out of the two, the processor and the graphics card, the processor is definatly the one in need of an upgrade. If you can't increase your budget at all, buy an AMD Athlon X2 5000+. It should be cheap enough for you to buy, and it is certainly leagues better than the budget chip you seem to be using there. On a tight budget, that is probably what I'd do in your situation too.
Oh year, i love you.
No knowlege but wise words.
My advice was founded on a pro's experience.
Boronic you got a fine one.
From my point of view i recommend you save your money and buy a new one in about 6 months.
Currently the Euro is beating the market.
Be patient and take a look at your local stores.
No knowledge? Excuse me, but do you think AMD is beating the crap out of Intel right now?
And did you notice his spending money is 200 Australian Dollars? Not Euros?
His budget is around 86 pounds sterling. The best chip for an AM2 socket motherboard he can get if he lived here is the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ from scan.co.uk. I hope its not a socket 939 motherboard, because those chips are hard to come by now.
Did your Pro friend tell you that no computer can be made for 86 pounds?
Next time, if you would be so kind to tell me why I have no knowledge, and give me examples as why my knowledge is substandard, then I'll listen. But I don't appreciate snide, pointless comments like that. Thanks.
And for the record, my advice is based on what the client wants, namely INFORMATION on whether to purchase a new Graphics card or Processor, which doesn't include "not spending" it.
All right, I've decided to upgrade my motherboard so it can plonk an Intel processor on it.
Once this is done, I'll need to get myself another $250 for the processor... But oh well. I'll find a way. Anyways...
The important thing is, which processor should I go for? The "future-proofing" E6600 or the E6850, which is only dual-core but has a higher clock-speed?
Sheesh, what is it with you people?:PI run FL with all detail sliders 4/5 or higher with no system lag (lag only due to net connection, that is) with FireFox, Skype, and a few other programs running, with these specs:
AMD Sempron 1.6 GHz
512MB RAM
NVidia 6200 LE (AGP)
Built it a couple years ago, and it still does the job nicely. Won't run new games very well, but I don't care because all my favorite games are at least a couple years old. XD Are you running some resource hogs in the background or something? Your system specs look just fine to me; at least, for playing Disco.
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