AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 2.30GHz

The X2 4400+ is a good processor, especially for the price, however if you are building a new system, I would recommend looking into the cheaper Core 2 Duo's. However if you are on a <$100 budget, and/or have an AMD motherboard already, then yes, those are great for the money.
 
[-0MEGA-];795817 said:
Thats a decent motherboard, as long as you dont plan to do some major overclocking.

BTW, why did you ask if you already ordered it? lol
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Just to make sure I've made the right approach. I've asked other forums, but they think that AMD processors are really slow. But reviews over the net have given me the 'humph' to order it. And I wanted to ask another Computer Forum. And I wasn't planning on doing any overclocking anyhow. There's a big risk, and I can't afford to buy and parts if anything goes terribly wrong. I think the ASROCK motherboards are actually Overclocking friendly.
 
taylormsj said:
Its very hard to break your components when overclocking,
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It's a new thing for me this processor. I have a very old one as we speak. Pentium 4 1.70GHz. I may consider over-clocking my new one in the future. I'm sure it's fast enough the one I'm getting.
 
KevinKevin said:
Just to make sure I've made the right approach. I've asked other forums, but they think that AMD processors are really slow. But reviews over the net have given me the 'humph' to order it. And I wanted to ask another Computer Forum. And I wasn't planning on doing any overclocking anyhow. There's a big risk, and I can't afford to buy and parts if anything goes terribly wrong. I think the ASROCK motherboards are actually Overclocking friendly.
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In the past AMD has been known as the best processor for gamers, however now with the Core 2 Duo's, you will find a lot of people that think AMD's processors are slow and useless.

If you dont feel comfortable overclocking then don't, it's not for everyone. And ASRock may seem overclocker friendly, however it has very few actual tweaks that you can do. Many models dont even let you change the voltages and/or tweak the memory timings.
 
[-0MEGA-];795864 said:
In the past AMD has been known as the best processor for gamers, however now with the Core 2 Duo's, you will find a lot of people that think AMD's processors are slow and useless.

If you dont feel comfortable overclocking then don't, it's not for everyone. And ASRock may seem overclocker friendly, however it has very few actual tweaks that you can do. Many models dont even let you change the voltages and/or tweak the memory timings.
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This processor should be fast though, right?
 
[-0MEGA-];795943 said:
The X2 4400+ can handle that, however it depends a lot more on your video card, as well as having a good amount of RAM.
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Well... I'm getting 2GB ram DDR2, and there's a built in integrated graphic card on the motherboard. Integrated graphic cards aren't as good as proper graphic cards but the built in graphic card shares 256MB.

Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce6-class graphics DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0, Max. shared memory 256MB - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF6G-VSTA
(NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 or GeForce 6150SE / nForce 430).
 
KevinKevin said:
Well... I'm getting 2GB ram DDR2, and there's a built in integrated graphic card on the motherboard. Integrated graphic cards aren't as good as proper graphic cards but the built in graphic card shares 256MB.

Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce6-class graphics DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0, Max. shared memory 256MB - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF6G-VSTA
(NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 or GeForce 6150SE / nForce 430).
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You wont be able to play Flight Simulator X well at all with the integrated 6100, even though it has 256MB of shared memory.
 
[-0MEGA-];795984 said:
You wont be able to play Flight Simulator X well at all with the integrated 6100, even though it has 256MB of shared memory.
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Will Flight Simulator 2004 be alright with that graphics card?
 
KevinKevin said:
Will Flight Simulator 2004 be alright with that graphics card?
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You may be able to play both games on low settings alright, but since I havent done it before or seen any benchmarks, I cant say for sure. Just dont expect too much from it.
 
In case you were a bit unclear kevin, the amount of ram a video card has doesnt show how well it performs, you could have onbaord graphics running at 2 Gb and it still would suck !
 
I believe that the performance of a video card is specified in many areas such as GPU Speed and Type, RAM Amount and Type, RAM Clock, and Interface (AGP,PCI,PCI-E). Im pretty sure you will see the best performance in a PCI-E card because it is the latest technology and your board supports it. I highly recommend a Geforce 8 or 7 series card with over 256mb of RAM and a GPU clock over 475mhz and a RAM clock over 1200mhz.
ATi also makes a very wide selection of cards.
 
It is faster than my current processor which is sufficient for my current needs. What type of Random Access Memory are you buying for it?
 
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