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donsor

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To Dual Core or Not
« on: February 11, 2007, 10:55:13 AM »
For my upgrade I have saelected the Asus Crosshair which has an AM2 socket. It supports a wide selection of AMD processors allowing me to start with around 4500+ and upgrading later. I don't do much multi-tasking but I play a lot of flight sim and casino games. My question is do I opt for a dual core now or single core. Also, your comment on selecting AM2 socket or 939 on a different board.
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GX1_Man

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Re: To Dual Core or Not
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2007, 12:02:35 PM »
It sounds like you have already selected an AM2 socket board. Nothing really further to discuss is there?
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Re: To Dual Core or Not
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2007, 07:42:05 PM »
Wrong. I have not finalized on anything and that's why I am asking these questions. But thanks for your input.
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Re: To Dual Core or Not
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2007, 09:32:59 PM »
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[highlight]For my upgrade I have saelected the Asus Crosshair which has an AM2 socket[/highlight]. It supports a wide selection of AMD processors allowing me to start with around 4500+ and upgrading later. I don't do much multi-tasking but I play a lot of flight sim and casino games. My question is do I opt for a dual core now or single core. Also, your comment on selecting AM2 socket or 939 on a different board.

It sounded that way, don't you think?
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    Re: To Dual Core or Not
    « Reply #4 on: February 12, 2007, 02:17:37 AM »
    Thats funny GX1!
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    Re: To Dual Core or Not
    « Reply #5 on: February 12, 2007, 03:25:35 AM »
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    Thats funny GX1!
    Where do you come in on this?
    :-?
    @ donsor - what's your budget?
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      « Reply #6 on: February 12, 2007, 02:30:53 PM »
      first of all, whats your budget. Secondly, how much flight-sim do u play?
      I'd recommend single-core but that all depends on you.
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      donsor

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      Re: To Dual Core or Not
      « Reply #7 on: February 12, 2007, 04:37:34 PM »
      New ATX case, mobo, cpu, memory (1 gig to start), video card about a grand.
      I've been flight simming since FS98. I have the FSX now and my existing PC just does not have the performance. to have a fairly decent FPS, I had to slide my graphic and scenery settings low.
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      Re: To Dual Core or Not
      « Reply #8 on: February 13, 2007, 08:40:58 AM »
      A grand?
      $1000 US?
      $1000 Canadian?
      £1000 GBP?
      You want a new case, a new motherboard, a new cpu, new RAM and a GPU for that, right?
      Might be a bit tight.
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      donsor

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      Re: To Dual Core or Not
      « Reply #9 on: February 13, 2007, 11:09:31 AM »
      Grand is an American slang for a thousand dollars. I don't know what it meant in Canada or in England.
      Unless I downgrade a bit with my choices of hardware, it will be more like $1600.00 by the time I get the rig together.      
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      Re: To Dual Core or Not
      « Reply #10 on: February 13, 2007, 01:09:45 PM »
      I know a grand is a thousand, I was asking what currency it may be in.
      $1000 US is about £2000 GBP, so quite a difference.
      I think that to play FSX, you're definitely looking at around that sort of budget.
      Unfortunately I'm not in America so I can't advise as to prices, only on components.
      I'll check some out for you later on though, using about £500 as an estimate.
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        Re: To Dual Core or Not
        « Reply #11 on: February 13, 2007, 01:40:44 PM »
        Wrong way round, $1000 is £514
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        Re: To Dual Core or Not
        « Reply #12 on: February 13, 2007, 01:45:08 PM »
        You're right.
        Sorry about that, got my exchange rates confused.
        I must learn to read through the post and check it makes sense . . .
        I think what I meant was £1000 is ~$2000.
        Anyway, thanks for correcting me.
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