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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
I posted in here a little while ago that I got a hp prebuilt with an amd
3800 processor. Which for me works fine. It just needs a better video card because it has a built in cheap one. Now I have a chance to get pretty much the same machine except it has a 4200 amd in it & that lightscribe technology with the burner. If I do get this I would just sell the 3800 computer & get the 4200 one. So my question is how much better is the 4200? Am I really going to notice a big difference? Also in the long run will it let me keep the computer for a lot longer then the 3800 one? I have looked at benchmark tests and everything for both but, nothing really compares the two really giving me any info on them head to head. I know for games & such sure the 4200 is going to help. Will the 4200 help in multi tasking...like playing music & having a spreadsheet open while doing something else. I guess what i'm trying to get to is the 4200 worth upgrading to for the $200 i'll probaly have to shell out extra to get or is the 3800 just fine for me for a few years? If someone has a website or such to help in my decision i'd appreciate or just opinions are fine. Thanks for any help. |
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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
warthog9 wrote:
I posted in here a little while ago that I got a hp prebuilt with an amd 3800 processor. Which for me works fine. It just needs a better video card because it has a built in cheap one. Now I have a chance to get pretty much the same machine except it has a 4200 amd in it & that lightscribe technology with the burner. If I do get this I would just sell the 3800 computer & get the 4200 one. So my question is how much better is the 4200? Am I really going to notice a big difference? Also in the long run will it let me keep the computer for a lot longer then the 3800 one? I have looked at benchmark tests and everything for both but, nothing really compares the two really giving me any info on them head to head. I know for games & such sure the 4200 is going to help. Will the 4200 help in multi tasking...like playing music & having a spreadsheet open while doing something else. I guess what i'm trying to get to is the 4200 worth upgrading to for the $200 i'll probaly have to shell out extra to get or is the 3800 just fine for me for a few years? If someone has a website or such to help in my decision i'd appreciate or just opinions are fine. Thanks for any help. It should, if one believes AMD's speed claims, be about 10% faster. Most people would not notice a "wow, that sure is faster!" difference between them -- it would be a matter of using the stopwatch to tell the difference. Installing as much memory as possible in the 3800 would probably yield as noticeable a speed difference without changing machines at all. And changing the main system drive to a 10Krpm drive like a WD1500AD Raptor would speed up pretty much everything. A serious multi-tasking improvement, IMHO, would call for going to a multi-core processor or at least an Intel hyper-threaded type. I've been using an AMD 3500 system and an Intel 3gHz HT machine with essentially equal memory and storage and the Intel is noticeable more graceful about handling heavy multi-tasking loads. Just my $0.02 of course... -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
"warthog9" wrote in message ... I posted in here a little while ago that I got a hp prebuilt with an amd 3800 processor. Which for me works fine. It just needs a better video card because it has a built in cheap one. Now I have a chance to get pretty much the same machine except it has a 4200 amd in it & that lightscribe technology with the burner. If I do get this I would just sell the 3800 computer & get the 4200 one. So my question is how much better is the 4200? Am I really going to notice a big difference? Also in the long run will it let me keep the computer for a lot longer then the 3800 one? I have looked at benchmark tests and everything for both but, nothing really compares the two really giving me any info on them head to head. I know for games & such sure the 4200 is going to help. Will the 4200 help in multi tasking...like playing music & having a spreadsheet open while doing something else. I guess what i'm trying to get to is the 4200 worth upgrading to for the $200 i'll probaly have to shell out extra to get or is the 3800 just fine for me for a few years? If someone has a website or such to help in my decision i'd appreciate or just opinions are fine. Thanks for any help. In my experience a 10% increase in CPU speed is essentially unnoticeable without a stop watch. In general, cpu upgrades are not economic. Memory, video and hard drive upgrades usually are economic. |
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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:04:50 -0500, "warthog9"
wrote: I posted in here a little while ago that I got a hp prebuilt with an amd 3800 processor. Which for me works fine. It just needs a better video card because it has a built in cheap one. Now I have a chance to get pretty much the same machine except it has a 4200 amd in it & that lightscribe technology with the burner. If I do get this I would just sell the 3800 computer & get the 4200 one. So my question is how much better is the 4200? Am I really going to notice a big difference? Also in the long run will it let me keep the computer for a lot longer then the 3800 one? I have looked at benchmark tests and everything for both but, nothing really compares the two really giving me any info on them head to head. I know for games & such sure the 4200 is going to help. Will the 4200 help in multi tasking...like playing music & having a spreadsheet open while doing something else. I guess what i'm trying to get to is the 4200 worth upgrading to for the $200 i'll probaly have to shell out extra to get or is the 3800 just fine for me for a few years? If someone has a website or such to help in my decision i'd appreciate or just opinions are fine. Thanks for any help. It's not worth the time or cost, just keep what you have and buy a video card. |
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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:39:46 GMT, kony
wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:04:50 -0500, "warthog9" wrote: I posted in here a little while ago that I got a hp prebuilt with an amd 3800 processor. Which for me works fine. It just needs a better video card because it has a built in cheap one. Now I have a chance to get pretty much the same machine except it has a 4200 amd in it & that lightscribe technology with the burner. If I do get this I would just sell the 3800 computer & get the 4200 one. So my question is how much better is the 4200? Am I really going to notice a big difference? Also in the long run will it let me keep the computer for a lot longer then the 3800 one? I have looked at benchmark tests and everything for both but, nothing really compares the two really giving me any info on them head to head. I know for games & such sure the 4200 is going to help. Will the 4200 help in multi tasking...like playing music & having a spreadsheet open while doing something else. I guess what i'm trying to get to is the 4200 worth upgrading to for the $200 i'll probaly have to shell out extra to get or is the 3800 just fine for me for a few years? If someone has a website or such to help in my decision i'd appreciate or just opinions are fine. Thanks for any help. It's not worth the time or cost, just keep what you have and buy a video card. That is, assuming it has a PCIe (or AGP but I doubt it) slot for the video card. |
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Amd 3800 vs 4200 - How big a difference?
It's not worth the time or cost, just keep what you have and
buy a video card. That is, assuming it has a PCIe (or AGP but I doubt it) slot for the video card. By the sounds of everyones opinion. I'm just going to stick with the 3800 which does have 2 extra pci slots & 1 pci-e slot available. Then i will just get a decent video card and up the ram. Thanks alot for the feedback everyone. |
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