upgrading without upgrading
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The FX60 is the only dual cored FX model cpu for the Socket 939 model boards. The 4800+ is an X2 model but not strictly a gaming model dual cored cpu. But if you wait until early 2007 you will probably see the current price drop closer to where the 4800+ X2 in now. In time they drop sharply in price.
Frankly I would just hold up and not fork out any extra cake right now. You're not going to notice a huge difference. Unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket see what the market brings. Any way you look at it you're going to lose money, so might as well lose the least amount possible in my eyes.
Nightrain
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I just got on from the last time i posted and read your replies. Honestly I'd love to go with an amd processor, if the money was worth it and it would keep up on the performance. Just saying with the money your gonna spend on a fx-60 you could buy a decent mobo and a core2duo and overclock it to completely wreck that fx-60. Put change in your wallet and use most of the rest of the parts that are on your current comp. Just saying...you would probably have money left over afterwards...
Archangel
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AMD has better case badges?
( sorry, couldnt resist posting that)but I'd stick with the fx-57 tbh.. better invest in some better grafic's than waste the money on a minor CPU upgrade
AMD has better case badges?
but I'd stick with the fx-57 tbh.. better invest in some better grafic's than waste the money on a minor CPU upgrade
It wouldn't that minor but a change of cpu type as well as the increase in the default clock speed. Going from a single cored FX57 to a dual cored FX60 would make a noticable difference for two not one reason. Multitasking at a faster default speed will show that. The problem is the price is still at the high end of the scale. In so many months it will drop below where the FX57 is seen now.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Yes it's going from single core to dual core, and an extra 200mhz, but is it worth the money in his paypal account? I could say no. That $600 can fund for a top of the line graphics card in his next build, or a very nice CPU.
The main thing here is the boost of cpu power that is being decided on. pdc76 wants to know which cpu will be the best for the current board not what board he can buy. If you want a strictly gaming build PCI-16x does offer quite a bit more when planning a new build over having a high end AGP card.
Cost wise? A simple wait for the FX60 to drop in price to move into that model or the immediate jump into the 4800+ X2. Performance wise the FX60 will offer a bit more then just the .2ghz default gain. It is geared more towards the gaming end.
Cost wise? A simple wait for the FX60 to drop in price to move into that model or the immediate jump into the 4800+ X2. Performance wise the FX60 will offer a bit more then just the .2ghz default gain. It is geared more towards the gaming end.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
By the time the FX60 drops to a reasonable price comparing to the X2 4800+, he'll be ready to buy a new rig with a pci-express card.
Well if he waits until then he would have $609 more to put towards a new build.
But at the present time he wants to upgrade the current with a faster cpu. I can understand that from having gone through three different model cpus on the last build here. But I never spent more then $180 on any of them(3x$180=$540). It also depends on what you use a system for. 
With a strictly gaming case you would want all of the higher end "bells + whistles" to make the world go round. But for the occasional gamer and web browsing/email checking you don't have to have a high end everything. The "work horse" will require some extra power on hand to handle the loads.
pdc76
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exactly. i'm not buying a pci-x card now, and another one down the road when dx10 and possibly phys-x is more popular. i have one of the fastest agp cards made, so i can deal with it until then. i want dual core (found the fx-60 for $479 too!) in the mean time, and i already have a system it can drop right into.btw, the fx-57 i have now is single core 2.8ghz, the fx-60 is dual core but only 2.6ghz. some of you had that backwards (not that it would stay at that speed anyway, but).
i have my upgrades planned out. i can't afford it all at once, so next i'll get a new board that takes sli and 1 pci-x card, then another card down the road, then another board when i upgrade the cpu. i can't afford the e6800, 2 790gtx's and a new mobo (for example) all at once. so i'll buy a 939 socket sli board and one 7900gtx, then get another 7900gtx later, and finally the e6800 with the board and it will be all complete. then 2 weeks after that, something else will come out that will make us all change everything, lol. crap never ends man.