what better? athlon II or athlon 64

[87dtna]

What power supply do you have now?

 

[gimmigzgy]

its only a 500w 20A 12v

 

[87dtna]

A 9600gt would run on that no problem.

 

[joebob1235]

Get the Athlon II, but remember you need an AM3 board and DDR3 Ram(I believe)

well no not necessarily, it depends on your mobo, if you have an AM3 mobo, then im pretty sure it would run DDR3 RAM but Athlon II is compatible with DDR2 and would be used with DDR2 if you had an AM2+ mobo

 

[gimmigzgy]

A 9600gt would run on that no problem.

How can you be so sure of that?

 

[87dtna]

How can you be so sure of that?

Because I've run my 9600gt on a 300w PSU with a 16A 12v rail. Super cheap PSU, came with a case I bought for $40 and those are always crap PSU's that come inside cases.

 

[xuniter]

my advice is to take the Athlon 64 X2 7850....i have the same and its very very good !!

 

[87dtna]

my advice is to take the Athlon 64 X2 7850....i have the same and its very very good !!

The athlon II is slightly better than the 7850 even at stock clocks. But the 240 is cheaper, will overclock better, and run WAY cooler. Even overclocked to 3.8ghz my athlon II 245 would barely crack 40c on a stock cooler (not the one that came with it but stock from a 9600be)

 

[2048Megabytes]

My advice is to take the Athlon 64 X2 7850.... I have the same and it's very very good!!

The Core 2 Duo E7500 beats the Athlon 7850 Dual-Core in processing power. That would not be an upgrade going to an Athlon 7850 Dual-Core Processor.