Worth upgrading?

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_simon_

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Is it worth swapping my Athlon X2 4600+ for an Athlon X2 6000+ ? Or should I just hold out until quad cores are mainstream and then upgrade? My last upgrade was from a single core 3200+, so I tend to leave a good while before upgrading normally.

Would it make much of a difference in games? I run Crysis at 1024x768, 8x AA and everything on Medium at the moment.

Before anyone suggests a 6400+, my motherboard doesn't support it, I already checked and I don't want to have to buy a new motherboard and don't suggest Intel either for the same reason.
 
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Indeed, 600MHz per core, thats 1.2GHz total, not to mention the 4600+ has 1mb cache where the 6000+ has 2MB.
 
You will see a difference but not by a massive amount, if it where me id overclock the cpu for now and get a bit more performance from it while waiting to see what the price of quads are going to be and if the recent rumours amount microsoft dumping vista are true
 
Unfortunately my motherboard doesn't have overclocking facilities otherwise I'd go for a 5000+ black edition and oc it to 3.2Ghz!
 
Support the 6400+ or overclocking? The answer to both is simply because it doesn't. The 6400+ has been tested by MSI and confirmed as not working and there are no multiplier, vcore etc options in the BIOS. It's all set automatically.
 
go for it mate,My friend just gone from a X2 5200+ 2.9Ghz to a 6400+ 3.2Ghz and he said its ALOT faster ;)
 
the 6000+ is a good chip...

no overclocker but its still a good runner, might beat some core2duo's stock but its lagging by todays standards.

i am gonna build a intel quad to replace my setup but i will never forget the 6000+
 
I've decided to forget it. My next upgrade will be to a quad core intel. Priced up an Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 with mobo for £232
 
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