Athlon II Quad, Phenom II Dual, or Phenom II Tri?

An Athlon quad would be more powerful than the Phenoms, but in older games that aren't threaded well the Phenoms will probably do better.
 
^ Or if you do anything that requires heavy number crunching. Not so much in gaming though. It makes for something like a 15% difference on average between the athlon and phenom.
 
Get the 640, same price. More cores is better for rendering over the cache of the Phenom II tri core.
 
How much of a performance gain/drop would I get by using a Phenom II X4?
I will be doing a lot of video rendering which Is why... HD 720p and Possibly 1080p.
If I spent the cash and bought a i5-750, would the extra money spent be worth the gain?
 
Well the 955 is only $140 now, probably worth it over the Athlon II. I didn't realize the price came down that much on them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...08&cm_re=Phenom_II_955-_-19-103-808-_-Product


Yes it would be well worth it if you do alot, the I5 750 whips Phenom II.

Just $14 more gets you the I5 760, which I've seen a ton of people lately have 4ghz overclocks at very low volts like 1.20. Crazy good and would be amazingly fast at rendering.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115067


Here's a comparison of the 955 and the I5 760-

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/191?vs=88

Notice, the I5 is clocked 400 MHZ less at stock, and does not lose one single benchmark. In the rendering bench they did, the I5 was 15 seconds faster. 57 seconds VS 72, thats 20% faster with 400 less mhz clock!
 
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rawcomputers said:
I love the Athlon II x4 640. A novice can speed it up to 3.5GHz no prob and they run cool.

The L3 cache is nice on the Phenom II's, but you are paying more for less overall processing power.
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Are you talking about comparing the processing power of a Phenom II Quad-Core to a Core i5 750 Quad-Core?
 
Wait a minute. For the price of the i5 760, you can get a six core Phenom, which will definitely be better at rendering.

The Athlon will do just fine, though. Can't say I've ever rendered video with mine, but it keeps up with music recording just fine, even with 10-15 tracks going at once, most with effects on them.
 
Drenlin said:
Wait a minute. For the price of the i5 760, you can get a six core Phenom, which will definitely be better at rendering.

The Athlon will do just fine, though.
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Yep^
Though for everything else, the i5-7** will be much quicker. An i5-760 is just an i7-930 without hyperthreading.
 
fastdude said:
Yep^
Though for everything else, the i5-7** will be much quicker. An i5-760 is just an i7-930 without hyperthreading.
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artificial benchmarks, yes, but you show me a real world application where you can notice a massive difference

Before recommending anything:

What will you be using the system for?
You said about video rendering, but how much will you realistically be doing?
what is your overall budget for this, or is it just for an idea of how much you would have to save/spend?
 
fastdude said:
Yep^
Though for everything else, the i5-7** will be much quicker. An i5-760 is just an i7-930 without hyperthreading.
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No, it's an I7 860 without HT.

Aastii said:
artificial benchmarks, yes, but you show me a real world application where you can notice a massive difference

Before recommending anything:

What will you be using the system for?
You said about video rendering, but how much will you realistically be doing?
what is your overall budget for this, or is it just for an idea of how much you would have to save/spend?
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:rolleyes: Benchmarks are made to mimic real apps, why do you think we use them?

He did say ''a lot'' of rendering.

And BTW, an I5 760 still puts up a good fight against a Phenom II 1055t hex core for rendering, it's not a beat down at all it's pretty close. But the I5 destroy's Phenom II in single threaded apps, which is most things. The I5 is still faster overall, and overclocks better. 1055t will struggle to hit 4ghz and if it can it will take decently high volts, a 760 will probably do 4ghz on stock volts maybe just a slight bump. I had a 1055t, it would do 3.8ghz at 1.375 Vcore but above that the Vcore needed ramped up a lot per mhz. 4ghz took 1.475 Vcore IIRC which is not a reasonable voltage to run 24/7. So, a 3.8ghz 1055t vs most likely about 4.2ghz I5 760 at the same voltage, I'd take the I5 in a heartbeat without thinking twice.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/147?vs=191

^^ I5 760 still wins 21 out of 32 benches, which is 65%....with 2 less cores at the same clocks :rolleyes:
 
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