Phenom II vs E6750

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PornFlake

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I have a chance to move some hardware around without much cash outlay and was wondering if anyone has an opinion regarding the Phenom II vs an E6750. Either the the X3 or the X2 550.

Would I see a significant boost in performance going from the E6750 @ 3.4 to either the X3 or X2?

Day to day tasks in Office, a bit of video encoding and mostly FPS like FC2, AA3, Crysis.

-Flake
 
the x2 550 most certainly wont give you more performance (unless it unlocks to a quad, but this is a gamble), at stock it is slower then your 3.4 C2D. Overclock it to 4.0 and it will be faster, but i wouldnt call it "significant"

As for the video encoding, anything with more cores will own that, the x3 720 will be a lot faster in video encoding, and other highly threaded tasks

why not just put a cheap q8300 or such in there?
 
I don't think the e6750 will be really worth upgrading unless you can somehow get a cheap upgrade. A q 9550 will be the only real major upgrade because of the 2 extra cores. Don't expect better gaming performance for the most part though.
 
Checkout the forums and grab a used and proven E8400 that will go to 4.3 - 4.5ghz.

And the Q8300's are notoriously piss poor OverClockers so you're way better off with a 4ghz + E8400
 
Make sure that the CPU you are buying have VT support for the XP mode in Win7
 
VT is going to be important as Win7 will be my main OS for everything come Thursday.

I built a gaming rig for my nephew last week with a PII X3 on a Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P OC'd to 3.4 and the damn thing smokes the crap out of my 6750.

I am torn between just swapping out the 6750 for something else on the same board or replacing the MB and CPU with his setup.

The AMD solution is viable as I can reuse the 4GB of RAM in my current rig but more expensive by about $70, than just swapping out the 6750 for a new CPU. E8400 = $170

-Flake
 
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Wouldn't really be worth it. If you want to upgrade, get a nice quad for your system instead. You can pick up a Q9550 for $170 these days if you have access to a Microcenter, or you can get one online for about $200-220.
 
Yeah, I was just looking at the Q9550. Might be a decent upgrade from the 6750 @ that price. Drop in another 4GB of memory and install x64 of Win7
 
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