is upgrading worth it? please comment

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kdfresh09

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hi. i have the cpu in my sig (athlon II x 4 630 @ 3.5Ghz). i am thinking that my cpu is the last thing that could be upgraded? i was thinking the six core cpu but im not sure which one, or if i should even bother. i mainly am looking at getting this pc squared away for at least 4 years before having to sell or upgrading parts again. any and all suggestions are very welcome, or any other critiques and changes would be nice as well. thanks
 
It will certainly yield better performance. Up to you.

I'd wait until bulldozer (new cpu architecture and cpu socket) next year (or very late 2010)
 
Better performance for what? Not much.

A 1090t is your best bet, and you should atleast be able to get 4ghz out of it then which would yield the largest improvement. The extra cores will maybe give you another year of futureproofing, but overall even if you got the 1090t in 2-3 years I think you'll need to upgrade again.
 
I agree with 87dtna,Get the 1090t and overclock it...then you should be set for some time.

You should have no problem selling your Athlon II too either,to fund towards the 1090t. :)
 
yeah since i just bought my motherboard i need to be stuck with this computer for at least 2-3 more years. i have someone who is buying my athlon II x 4 next week for basicaly retail ($85). im going to invest in the hex core, but not sure which one. budget is going to be maybe $200 tops, cause i really want to get a ssd drive (any suggestions on that would be great too. looking at a budget of $125 for that). im hoping to get a good deal on black friday from newegg on both these items. so 2-3 years from now the systme should still have some descent value to it for when i sell it and probably upgrade to whatever intel has out then. comsidering after i get the hex core and ssd drive ill have a total of $1100 into it including the monitor and everything. not bad since it would probably be around $2500 to build from newegg.

so any suggestions on a hex core and ssd would be great. and who thinks newegg will have good deals on them on black friday?
 
You really should stretch to get the 1090t man, the black edition is sooooo worth it.

OCZ agility II for the SSD, at that price range, probably a ~60gb.
 
Yes they are exactly the same, and both have the same warranty. Go for the G.Skill I guess to save a couple bucks.
 
Well I just installed a 1055T in my set up last night and I've got it sitting at 3.8Ghz now with 45*c load on P95. It can even stretch up to 4, but the sheer voltage increase for the 200mhz is just way too much for everyday use, but it is stable at 4Ghz. Granted I'm sure the 1090T has a lot more headroom (Not to mention the convenience of the unlocked multi.) but as a poor student who spends his money in all the wrong places, I was having a hard time shelling out the extra dough for the BE. If you're in a similar situation, I highly doubt you'll regret getting the 1055T over the 1090T.
 
CardboardSword said:
Well I just installed a 1055T in my set up last night and I've got it sitting at 3.8Ghz now with 45*c load on P95. It can even stretch up to 4, but the sheer voltage increase for the 200mhz is just way too much for everyday use, but it is stable at 4Ghz. Granted I'm sure the 1090T has a lot more headroom (Not to mention the convenience of the unlocked multi.) but as a poor student who spends his money in all the wrong places, I was having a hard time shelling out the extra dough for the BE. If you're in a similar situation, I highly doubt you'll regret getting the 1055T over the 1090T.
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What did you upgrade from? Going from an Athlon II quad is not as much difference than if you came from a Pentium 4 or something.
 
It was an Athlon 2 x2 245 I believe. Whichever one is clocked at 2.8Ghz stock haha. Ram kinda has to be overclocked as it is a locked processor, so the FSB is the only methoed of increasing clock speed. Ram is oc'ed to 1449Mhz, pretty sure that's not great because it shags with the ratios of CPU-RAM speed, but that concept has always gone over my head. I'm still working on seeing how low I can get the timings, but I believe they're at 7-8-7-20. Not sure if there's a more effective way to do it than what I am, but I'm basically just lowering them then doing a blend Prime95 test to see if it's stable. HT link is at 2100~ mhz, and NB is at 2450~. Can't recall the numbers off the top of my head, haven't been playing with it as much as I'd like to, serious networking issues at the moment lol.
 
considering the OP has a SLI setup...would it not be wise to just drop a CPU in and be done with it? i am fairly sure with how amd has not been able to do SLI, SLI wont happen on bulldozer...
 
It's not the CPU that determines if you can SLI, it's the board. Specifically the chipset on the board. I'm sure there will be Nvidia chipset boards with the bulldozer socket as well.
 
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