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I was just doing some reading. Is it true that the Pentium G620 Dual-Core (2.6 gigahertz) Processor has about the same processing power as the Athlon II 455 (3.3 gigahertz) Triple-Core?
Pentium G620 Processor has about the same processing power as the Athlon II 455?
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jonnyp11
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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/202?vs=406
Athlon wins there in a lot of the stuff, but gaming seems to escape it, really the more i look at it the worse amd seems to be, but i still like them for the better overclocking ability at the price.
Athlon wins there in a lot of the stuff, but gaming seems to escape it, really the more i look at it the worse amd seems to be, but i still like them for the better overclocking ability at the price.
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Yup, I'd go 620, for me the power consumption wins me over, 76, vs. 130 watt of the AMD? The choice is obvious for me.
I mean if you doing mutlithreaded programs, you should probably get the 455, due to its extra core, and ALOT more head room for overclocking.
Plus, its 10$ cheaper.
I mean if you doing mutlithreaded programs, you should probably get the 455, due to its extra core, and ALOT more head room for overclocking.
Plus, its 10$ cheaper.
Power consumption is a over played issue. Unless you have a crap power supply and running it 24/7, if your power bill goes up 2 bucks a month and you freak out, lol.
Yeah pretty true. If it uses 10w more at idle and 50w more loaded, and you leave your PC on 24/7....let's figure an average of 25w since it will probably be idling the majority of the time anyway.
Using my current electric bill of 8 cents per KWH, thats roughly $1.44 a month.
With that said though, the G620 is probably overall the better CPU anyway. In single and dual threaded apps, which is most things, the G620 pwns. And in multithread, the 455 isn't really far ahead of the G620 at all. However, overclocking the 455 is fairly easy while the G620 doesn't really overclock at all. Keep in mind though the G620 is also $70 VS $80 for the 455.
But, it really depends on what you are doing with your PC...I honestly wouldn't really recommend either CPU in most cases.
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Really the computers wattage is a mute point to use buying hardware. Nothing more then a trick selling point. The difference between a 95 and 125W processor and a higher wattage video card. You could change out (two) 100W light bulb for a 40W and your bill would even go down. In the winter with the heater going and three computers, three TV, water heater, oven/stove, lights and everything else. My bill runs about 6 bucks a day.
jonnyp11
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Lucky....
We've (5 of us plus 2 grandparents downstairs) had several electricity bills 1000+, 6*30=180, that's less than our comcast (cable and internet) bill.
Yeah my power bill was 180 this month. My cable with all channels and HD, but without pay channels and Internet at 30Mbps down and 4Mbps upload is 89 a month.
We have no time rate differences here. Yes our rate is good compared to most other places, even my brothers house 1/2 hour away pays 3 times the rate I have which is why he's switching his electric water heater to gas and even eventually buying a diesel generator to go off grid as the diesel fuel for it will be much cheaper than the electric bill.
So I guess all the laundry gets done overnight there? lol.
jonnyp11
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our 15mb/s (but speedtests at 20+) is like 45/month, then comcast cable with almost all channels then all the premium movie channels plus 3 or 4 boxes and a dvr box puts those 2 things at like 220 or so.
Thats high man, damn. Think when I had all the pay channels too, mine was like 134 month. When I was in the army, I took Basic and AIT at Fort Benning in Georgia. Pretty cool state. But seemed to be sand and clay mud everywhere. lol.
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I used to have the comcast 15mb (which I can also confirm speedtests to 20), but I recently downgraded because the cable bill was crazy.
Now I have 5mb, which there is no real difference, home phone with long distance caller ID yada yada, and TV with all the regular channels (no HBO or starz, etc although I do have encore) with HD for $99 a month....the bill comes in at $120 after taxes and fees crap.
Nice thing with comcast is they have some power boost thing, so the speedtest shows really well lol and for small downloads it really blasts through them.
Anything faster is pointless really I've found, as most servers you download from are the bottleneck not your service.
Now I have 5mb, which there is no real difference, home phone with long distance caller ID yada yada, and TV with all the regular channels (no HBO or starz, etc although I do have encore) with HD for $99 a month....the bill comes in at $120 after taxes and fees crap.
Nice thing with comcast is they have some power boost thing, so the speedtest shows really well lol and for small downloads it really blasts through them.
Anything faster is pointless really I've found, as most servers you download from are the bottleneck not your service.
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jonnyp11
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Well when we got our new router for the first month or so the speed test started at 40-50 for the first 10 secs, then dropped down to like 18, but then and now, steam holds about a 1.5mb/s download rate, but with the speedburst thing, when you first stat it goes up to 2.5-3, then drops to 1.5 over 30 or so secs. But on like ubuntu, i download the 700mb file in <10mins, about 7-8, i just wish this thing was wired to the router, wonder what it would pull then?
And yeah, there is no dirt here, just red Ga. clay or sand, maybe a foot or so of dirt actually, but when we were tilling up our garden for the first time on un-broken ground, we had to borrow a friends tractor just to go over a foot down
And yeah, there is no dirt here, just red Ga. clay or sand, maybe a foot or so of dirt actually, but when we were tilling up our garden for the first time on un-broken ground, we had to borrow a friends tractor just to go over a foot down
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