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Finally entering the "dual core" age!

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Finally entering the "dual core" age!

Postby Galvatron628 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:01 am

So I've been using my Athlon 64 socket 939 setup for quite some time. I've been wanting to make the switch to an Athlon 64 X2 for quite some time, but since the discontinuation of socket 939, and the switch to DDR2 memory I never felt like shelling out the cash to make the socket AM2 switch. Well last wednesday a friend of mine from work straight up gave me a micro ATX socket AM2 motherboard with the AMD690 chipset on it. I got on newegg Saturday grabbed 2GB of DDR2 800 and an Athlon X2 5000+. Cost me $90 free shipping. I checked ebay to see what I could get out of my old hardware and I seems I could at least get $90 out of the processor and motherboard. Reason being is I have a very rare and sought after motherboard right now. Only board to have a fully functional AGP8X slot and a PCI-E 16X slot! I'm getting the stuff today, really looking forward to putting it in.

Now if I can just do something about my ancient ass video card I might have a decent gaming machine on my hands. This hardware will eventually be moved into my HTPC as I plan on making the jump to Phenom next year, in which I'll need an AM2+ board.

BTW if you couldn't tell I'm an AMD guy. Have been ever since they brought out the K6-2.
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Re: Finally entering the "dual core" age!

Postby Blast Cannon » Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:51 pm

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Re: Finally entering the "dual core" age!

Postby Galvatron628 » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:44 pm

I'm not the first guy to start a thread about computer stuff.
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Re: Finally entering the "dual core" age!

Postby Galvatron628 » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:23 am

So now I got this Dual Core and I'm wondering "what the hell do I do with it?" lol Windows XP is way beyond its requirements nowadays, I didn't really notice any performance gain as far as that goes. I haven't been gaming on my PC latley, and I'm still rockin a 7300GT as far as video card goes, so its not like its the ultimate gamer...

Oh well I guess. I supose if i want to game in the near future my PC will be more ready for the newer stuff coming out. I put the new stuff on a charge card, and after I sell my old stuff I should at least break even, so nothing lost, nothing gained.

Still cool to see this though:

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Re: Finally entering the "dual core" age!

Postby TheMuffin » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:03 pm

Motto: "I still function!"
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Open up a bunch of quicktime movies. For some reason it's entertaining to watch the command manager graph work out which core is opening what. Quad core is even more interesting for this. Opening 40 1080P quicktime videos and not having them lag just feels rewarding.
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