What is better? core2duo e7500 or Phenom x4 9650

[Jet]

I dont know, the dude has a 9500GT 1GB. now. All this about upgrading to 9600GT or a 4670 (Which is a good price). I think with his system as a whole, that small of a upgrade would be a waste of money and time.

My opinion, I would just save up and get a better card and power supply. Then when you can afford it upgrade your board and processor move them over to it.

Your just going from a low mid range card to another better low mid range card.

I do agree with you somewhat--but the 9500GT is more of a low end card, and it still is a fairly big bump in performance to the HD 4670 (2x the performance in some/most cases):

http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Gra...-HD-4670-vs-nVIDIA-GeForce-9500GT/Page-4.html

 

[gimmigzgy]

this is what I'm planning to do,

from my
core2duo e7500 2.93ghz
ECS g31t-m7
9500gt 1gb 128bit
pc667 2gb ddr2

to a:

Athlon II x2 250 3.0ghz 2mb cache -procie
Gigabyte GA-MA74Gm-S2H AMD740g -mobo
9600gt 512mb 256bit
or a 4870 or 4850 or 4830 -gpu
2gb pc800 ddr2 -ram


would it perform better than my old one?

I won't buy a new PSU cuz I could just buy a pci to molex adapter.
But do you think that's safe?

 

[Jet]

You definitely won't have a problem with the 4670--it doesn't require the extra PCI-E power connector--the others, though, might be questionable.


EDIT: Why are you downgrading your cpu? The e7500 is better than the Athlon II x2 250....

 

[gimmigzgy]

but it only has a 128bit interface

 

[StrangleHold]

This thread is like a Vicious Circle.

The Intel e7500 and the X2 250 are pretty much equal. Whats the point?

 

[gimmigzgy]

ahaha!
we're off about procies now.

would I make a new post about GPUs?

 

[tossy]

Hey, I read some good reviews about core2duo e7500 ..... I felt it could be useful for you.
http://www.productwiki.com/intel-core-2-duo-e7500/