help me choose a processor.

[slash_89]

1.hows its perfomence of amd x2 4200+ and can u give me the benchmarks?

2.is its perfomence upto c2d?

3.how much does it cost?

4.and is it very good only for RTS games like RON?

5.suggest a amd x2 4200+ and a mobo only for real time strategy games,
i wont be playing fps or rps on it bcos i have a ps2.

 

[Pathik]

1.wats ur budget
2.it wont compare to intel C2D
3.for most rts games a x2 4200+ and a asus m2n pv mx shd do...
or take any ny mobo wit onboard nvidia 6100+ chipset

 

[dOm1naTOr]

here are my benchmarks of 4200+(939) overclocked. If u choose AM2 one, its more cooler nd performs better than 939 counterparts. So it can be better overclocked than the 939 proccys.
see the benchs.
*img111.imageshack.us/img111/9679/bench1if1.th.jpg

*img254.imageshack.us/img254/5361/bench3xi9.th.jpg


*img89.imageshack.us/img89/7742/bench2qs5.th.jpg


*img89.imageshack.us/img89/4214/bench4vg7.th.jpg

*img380.imageshack.us/img380/2143/procarithmtop1tw1.th.jpg

*img117.imageshack.us/img117/4083/procarithmeticwt8.th.jpg

*img117.imageshack.us/img117/5861/procarithmetic2lt7.th.jpg



*img117.imageshack.us/img117/7465/procmmfm6.th.jpg

*img117.imageshack.us/img117/3128/procmm2vo6.th.jpg

*img117.imageshack.us/img117/7398/procmmtop1rj3.th.jpg

*img231.imageshack.us/img231/9060/reportmemmv8.th.jpg


So an oced 4200+ is not that less than a top line c2d.

 

[deathvirus_me]

Hmm , and take a look at my proccy ...

Everest Scores :

Memory Read : 7026 MB/s
Memory Write : 6086 MB/s
Memory Copy : 6179 MB/s
Memory Latency : 62.2 ns

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_memread.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_memwrite.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_memcopy.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_memlatency.JPG

CPU Queen : 6056
CPU Photoworkxx : 23708
CPU Zlib : 39487

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_CPUqueen.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_CPUphotoworxx.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_CPUzlib.JPG

FPU Julia : 11410
FPU Mandel : 5521
FPU SinJulia : 8318

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_FPUjulia.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_FPUmandel.JPG *www.supload.us/thumbs/default/everest_FPUsinjulia.JPG

SiSoft Sandra scores :

Multimedia :
Integer x8 iSSE4 : 164621 it/s
Float x4 iSSE2 : 89407 it/s

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/SiS_multimedia.JPG

Arithmetic :
Dhrystone ALU : 27595 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 : 19181 MFLOPS

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/SiS_arithmetic.JPG

3DMark06 CPU Score : 2584

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/3DMark06_stock-20070220133928.jpg

SuperPI 1M : 16.985 s

*www.supload.us/thumbs/default/SuperPI_1M.JPG

@aravind_n20 : And if u still say that ur oc'ed X2 4200+ can put up against this .. then ur blind .. and my CPU ain't in the top line either ...

But again ... these are merely artificial benchmarks .. Intel maybe manufacturing performing CPU , but AMD still gives a better price-performance ratio .. but if ur going to invest in a new CPU then go for the Core2 Duo line-up ofcourse ... since it can be oc'ed much more than any Athlon64 X2 can go .. with better performance ofcourse ...

I'd simply suggest u to go with a E4300 , along with a Gigabyte DS3 or DS3P mobo ..

And as for performance .. the E4300 should actually be much better than a stock X2 4200+ .. and if u did have plans to oc the X2 4200+ , then u can do so with the E4300 too , and attain much better results ... Also , infact some games do run better on Intel (like Gothic 3 , R6 Vegas etc. etc.) ... so u'd be in good hands here too ..

NOTE : Except 3DMark and SuperPI , for the rest i had Winamp , uTorrent , Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk running ..

Also , the P965 chipset doesn't let u set 1T CR for the memory , so it was running at 2T ... and ofcourse the mem. bandwidth will increase quite a bit with 1T ..

 

[144]

Check out this thread:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39067&page=2

You would find the link below useful which I am quoting from Anandk's (distinguished member of this forum) post in the above thread

*www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=464&chart=189