i need to decide wether to get AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ 2.60GHz Or Intel Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz i just need some advice, this pc will have 2 nvidia card on Sli and 4gbs RAM
this pc will be used for pro video editing and gaming
Who in their righteous mind would want a pro video edit setup on a gaming rig? illepall
Buy a Mac for editing and stick with PC for gaming, say, for a couple of years and then use Mac for both as MS puts itself out of business by shooting itself in the knee with Vista and then amputates the wrong leg by mistake.
Im doing media tech for my college course and need a pc capable of playing games and editing film, the movies arnt pro but the software requires a decent setup,
The Conroe is definitely a much better chip. The E6600 is equivalent to or faster than an FX-62, which is clocked another 200 MHz faster than the 5000+, has a 1MB cache per core (versus 512KB per core on the 5000+) and costs A LOT more.
The only problem is the price of Conroe (LGA 775) motherboards, which tend to be a bit more expensive than Socket AM2 boards.
I was the same way. I've never, EVER bought an Intel chip. Until now. And it flies.
O/T: CPU's I've owned
Pentium 166 MHz (I never actually bought this one, it was given to me by my father as the first computer that I could call my own)
K6-2 300 MHz, 400 MHz, 500 MHz
Duron 600 MHz (Spitfire core)
Athlon 1000 MHz (Thunderbird core)
Athlon XP 1600+ (1400 MHz, Palomino core), 3000+ (2100 MHz, Barton core)
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2133 MHz, Conroe core)
Cpu - Currently The Intel Conroe is the faster cpu (at least for now)
But another thing, I dont think you actually need 4gb of ram, I think that may be overkill. I would say 1gb would be good enough then in a year or something if u need the extra ram add some more. but 2gb would be enough for you. even if your doing the video editing.
Also might not be worth to get 2 SLI cards now. Might be better to get a higher model SLI card then in a card when you need more power add another one which will probably be half the price by then.
Also make sure you got a good quality powersupply to handle SLI if u get it. OCZ make Very good ps's & 5 year warrenty.
I would say conroe cause they beat the opants off the AMD CPU's. I was an AMD fanboy up untill i saw the reviews of the comparison between the new Intel Core 2 Duo and the AMD 62 FX. The difference is big.Read This review it should help with your decision.
In about two and a half months ill be upgrading to
I was thinking of building myself a computer in the future. Except, i was figuring AMD Althlon 64 (AM2) one 6800XT, 2GB of DDR2, and a 250GB hard drive. That way, I could upgrade to a Athlon 64 x2 later. And but another 6800XT for SLI. Although, athlon 62 x2's might not be that much more expensive.
It is but think of it this way. When You get it to its maximum Overclocking with stock cooling it beats the AMD FX 62 easily which is over 3 times its price. This means that you will be paying very little money for what you are getting. If you read the review on the link posted you will see What I mean
Also When I built this system in march I paid over 350 euros for this cpu and now I can buy it for 110 euro less.
Well aware, however I've been having problems with getting it stable at anything over 320MHz FSB (ASUS P5B Deluxe). I'm running the latest BIOS (507) and at 333 MHz, I get rounding errors in Prime95, even with the multiplier dropped to 6x from the stock 8x, so it's clearly a motherboard problem (RAM was also underclocked).
As a matter of fact, it's MUCH more stable at 420MHz than at 350MHz (instead of errors, the system reboots itself at 350MHz as soon as I start Prime95) but at 420MHz, I still get errors in Prime95. I read on the Anandtech forums that this particular board is weird like that, it has a range between 350 and 400MHz in which it just doesn't work right. I also tried playing with the motherboard voltages but to no avail.
I'm currently running at 300MHz FSB with the stock 8x multiplier for a core clock of 2.4GHz.
steve why would you want to buy a new sys already ? its not like a conroe will be significantly faster than your current system (at least not to the point where its actually noticeable)
illepall 