Should I... 4400 X2 from Venice 3000+

[Randell Floyd]

I have been wondering if I should possibly cut my losses with the 3000+ Venice @ 2.6ghz, and the G.Skill LA 2 x 512mb thats able to do around 315 @ 2.5-3-4-7 1t 1:1, and opt for a 4400 X2 with some 2gb of 2 x 1gb RAM.

I can get the 4400 X2 for £350 new as my friend bought a FX57 instead after purchasing the X2, so he never even opend it

So what would people do?

[Shmee150]

buy it from him for £350, offer it to me for £400, then hope you live somewhere near me and I'll come get it with cash

Or just buy it and use it yourself!

ShMeE

[Scarlet Infidel]

Well what do you want to use the computer for? (this question will come up a lot now that these X2s are available)

[Randell Floyd]

Surf and listen to music and d/l.
BF2
Video Editing
DVD Ripping
DVD Encoding
Photo Editing

Listen in order of most use

[StormPC]

If it's your only computer and you do a lot of things as much as gaming (multi-tasking, video editing, etc...) then the X2 is a very powerful and sensible platform. If you are a gamer or overclocker you may be disappointed in the performance compared to what you could have gotten for the same money in a single-core CPU.

Basically, if you don't do things that take advantage of dual-cores then don't pay for them. If you truly multi-task, do scientific crunching, etc... then X2 is the way to go.