amd 7750 or 9850?

mx344

mx344

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HI all, i have a amd 5200+ on a asus M2N-SLI board, and in the near future i wold like to upgrade my processor, but i am not totally sure what i should get.

My motherboard has support for the 7750 and the 9850, which i am kind of confused.
The 9850 is 125watt, and so is the 9950, but it doesn't support the 9950, just the 9850 and below.

But anyway which one would be better for gaming, I won't be doing much overclocking, maybe 100-200 mhz or so. But i would like to keep it for about 2 years or soo, what do you think?

I am kinda leaning over to the 9850, being that is is a quad, and it will be more future proof, but will it benefit me enough, because the 7750 has a better stock clock...
 
Better do it pretty fast. The way I understand AMD is getting out of the 65nm. pretty fast. In the long run the 9850. But just for gaming right now, the 7750 cost less than half as much as the 9850, so if its cost its hard to beat. I would wait till you have money for a board and update to the 45nm. AM2+/3.

Then there is the 8750BE too. Good chip, overclocks good to. Had one at 3.2ghz. with 1.40V
 
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the 7750 is alot cheaper, has 2mb L3 cache (helps in gaming, the 9850 doesn't have any), has a lower tdp, and is more effective clock for clock than the 9850 (Phenom II vs Phenom architecture)
I have my 7750 at 3.077 ghz on stock voltages, and 3.2ghz at 1.39-1.4v. The 9850 is quad, but far from future proof, if you want a quad, i'd go with the 7750, wait till Phenom II chips go down a bit, and grab one of those.
BTW my chip maxes out at like 3.34ghz, but i haven't tweaked my settings alot.
 
Mr. Johanssen said:
the 7750 is alot cheaper, has 2mb L3 cache (helps in gaming, the 9850 doesn't have any), has a lower tdp, and is more effective clock for clock than the 9850 (Phenom II vs Phenom architecture)
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The Athlon X2 7750 isnt a Phenom II, and the 9850 has 2mbs. of L3 just like the 7750. The only Phenom II AM2+ parts are the 920/940.
 
StrangleHold said:
The Athlon X2 7750 isnt a Phenom II, and the 9850 has 2mbs. of L3 just like the 7750. The only Phenom II AM2+ parts are the 920/940.
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Ahh. i just confused myself in the post, it's phenom (K10). has 2mb L3 for 2 cores, so 1mb per core, where Agena is 512/core, are clock for clock more efficient than their predecessor cpus by (averaged from a few PCMARK vantage 06 scores on a few sites, and some x264 benches) about 9% (due to core differences and HT 3.0, etc.)

So that means by AMD X2 (Brisbane core) standards, the 2.7ghz 7750 is near a 6000+, and when overclocked to 3.2ghz would be Brisbane 3.6ghz (ish, hence the 7750 nomenclature)
 
Mr. Johanssen said:
Ahh. i just confused myself in the post, it's phenom (K10). has 2mb L3 for 2 cores, so 1mb per core, where Agena is 512/core, are clock for clock more efficient than their predecessor cpus by (averaged from a few PCMARK vantage 06 scores on a few sites, and some x264 benches) about 9% (due to core differences and HT 3.0, etc.)

So that means by AMD X2 (Brisbane core) standards, the 2.7ghz 7750 is near a 6000+, and when overclocked to 3.2ghz would be Brisbane 3.6ghz (ish, hence the 7750 nomenclature)
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Yeah thats right. The Phenom I is faster clock for clock than the Brisbane, due to core improvements plus the L3 cache and tweaks to the memory controller. And the 7750 gets alittle extra boost because its only using 2 cores and still has the whole 2mbs. of L3. Gives it a advantage of more L3 for each core. The 7750 is the best X2 they have made so far.
 
wait a minute though. your board supports either of these?
i'm pretty sure the m2n sli was AM2 only, not AM2+
 
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