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jonnynocash

Hello everyone.I was wondering if anyone can point me towards a good processor and motherboard comparison site.At the moment I am running an AMD 4200 cpu on a Foxconn motherboard.They have served me well for quite a while but I feel an upgrade moment building.As it seems a minefield with duo core quad core and any future cores in the pipeline I thought I would get as much info between now and Christmas when I hope to upgrade,Any help would be much appreciated.

fwor

Problem is that there are so many products to choose from! I've used this site, among many others:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/

From what I've read recently, it seems that the best value for money in processors at the moment are the high-performance dual-cores.

You seem to pay quite a premium for quad-cores, which many applications still can't exploit fully. So unless you run lots of processes at the same time or know that your main app is truly multi-threaded, quad core may well result in only one core taking most of the load.

jonnynocash

Hello and many thanks for your reply.I have had a look at the site and comparing what I use the computer for which is Internet,MS Office MS Flight Sim. occasional photo printing would something like this do the job.
http://www.ebuyer.com/bundle/8WT9CM8E7

fwor

Of those apps, MS flight sim seems to be the most CPU-hungry, and it's graphics IIRC aren't exactly leading edge, so I doubt that anything you'll be doing will tax that processor.

One point to note about the AMD 64 X2 6000+ is it's quite power-hungry. For your use you might prefer the energy-efficient version, which confusingly runs at a slightly higher colck speed but is called the 64 X2 6000. If your PC is on for long periods of time, that processor consumes around 30% less power.

Sorry, don't know anything about that mobo.

jonnynocash

Hi fwor.Many thanks for your reply I will look into the processor as you suggested.As for the mobo I have had a Foxconn mobo for a long time and had no problems with it so maybe I can find one to go with the AMD 6000.:beer: