Hello All,
Seeing as there are going to potentially be hefty price cuts coming soon on the AMD X2 series, due to Conroe etc, I have been tempted by the buying bug and been justifying it with the "It'll be a good chip for the money"
What I want to know is if there will be much noticable difference between what i have now and an X2. I mean this mainly in terms of gaming, as although i use it for other things, this is where i want the machine to excel.
Will the jump from my opteron, which is at 2.5Ghz, to say an equivalent X2 improve things much? I dont know the pricing but i think that i would only be willing to part with 150 quid tops to warrant it a good deal, so I'm comparing with the best that you could get for that price.
I'm thinking that games will mostly be GPU-limited, but there seems to be more utilisation of dual core now...
Opinions welcome
JP
PS. System is on the left