I was thinking of upgrading from an X2 3800+ to an X2 4400+ Toledo. Would the performance be greatly increased or is it even worth it? I do a lot of video converting from AVI to DVD.
tarboro,
I'm running the X2 4400+ Toledo chip in a Asus A8N-SLI premium M/B, 2 GB Corsair PC3200 @ dual channel. I can encode 4.35 GB of DVD (sorry I don't know how many frames) in 9 mins.
My Intel 3.2 Prescott, ASUS P4P800 SE , 1 GB Kingston PC3200 @ dual channel takes 12mins to do the exact same job.
You could just overclock the 3800x2 as they are extremely good overclockers easily going to 2.75+.
The 4400x2 is a crap overclocker compared to the 3800x2 with a likely overclock of 2.5-2.6 on most cabs, if you are really lucky and have wastercooling you can push 2.8.
The main gain would be the larger layer2 cache up from 512KB to 1MB per core
i'd get a intel dual core conroe,if ur mtherboard is a lga775,i was looking at them the otherday and was quite pleasantly suprized at the prices,there going for pretty cheap,only a little more than the amd x2 4400+...when will quad core cpu's come out? end of next year? and who will bring them out first,AMD??
um yeah,they don't how would u mix em,by putting on top of eachother lol...i'm just saying :ok if u have amd like me,then ur mobo is probably a socket 939,but you could buy a mobo that is lga775 and then buy a conroe cpu,it outperforms any amd cpu at the moment...
