AMD 4000+ or 4200X2 ?

[Stevevai9]

ok, I just need to have a little debate settled quickly. Should I go with an AMD athlon 64 4000+ or an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ ? I do heavy gaming and am starting to get into photoshop, programming, and I run music synthesis prgrams on my computer. Which would be best?

[blue60007]

If you are going to be doing heavy multitasking (ie, encoding music and a video file at the same time) I'd lean towards the 4200+, but if you will just be doing one heavy thing at a time, I'd lean towards the 4000+, unless that program is multithreading, meaning it could take advantage of dual cores, then I'd go for the 4200+

Either way, both should perform the same performing one heavy task, but the X2 would win with two heavy tasks at the same time.

Hope I didn't confuse you more.

[kram 2.0]

Originally Posted by Stevevai9 ok, I just need to have a little debate settled quickly. Should I go with an AMD athlon 64 4000+ or an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ ? I do heavy gaming and am starting to get into photoshop, programming, and I run music synthesis prgrams on my computer. Which would be best?

For heavy gaming, the 4000+. For Photoshop/Music Synthesis, 4200+ would be fairly beneficial. I recommend the dual core.

kram

[Stevevai9]

Ok, I guess the dual core makes more sense. Now the mobo I'm getting is an MSI Neo4 Platinum, will I need to get a BIOS update in order to use the dual core? If so where would I obtain it?

[blue60007]

The MSI site should provide a CPU support table. Should list what BIOS version you need. If the BIOS version shipped isn't high enough, you will need a CPU that is supported to do the update.

[xdkimx]

x2 3800, its exactly the same thing just that the mhz and multiplier is set slightly lower, theyll generally overclock at the same mhz

if u want to go with something of slightly higher quality x2 4400, same thing with double the l2 cache

all just marketing really