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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
Thats not true. Ive got a AM2 board with and nforce 3 chipset that uses agp gfx and ddrII ive used boards often that run apg and ddr I with Intel cpus also ie the D805
I would argue also and of the conroes will wee on a skt 754 cpu even if only using one core and imo you would deffo notice.I also would argue the mid range x2 cpu against a conroe in apps such as video encoding would show a difference markedly
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Be better to use PCI-E though wouldn't it, seeing as AGP is practically a legacy interface now.
I still maintain for web browsing, email, and MS Office type stuff, you wouldn't really notice a marked difference. Video editing, gaming, yes. But the fact remains, right now I have Media Player, Thunderbird and Firefox up, as well as anti virus stuff etc, and i'm hardly stressing this. CPU 15 odd %, RAM about 866, and Thunderbird seems to be such a RAM hog these days
I have quite a lot running, but I do that, because I know the PC can cope.
Yeah a 754 is two sockets out of date and far from the fastest around, but there will still be people happy with their Pentium IIs running Win98 and crashing every 2 minutes! Likewise, some people will still be using old PCs, because it suits their needs fine, probably not for enthusiasts (in fact, defo not) but a £1000 PC four years ago could do exactly what the purchaser intends it to do, and is not interested in intensive tasks... those who do, keep on top of the game, and spend more on it. Believe it or not, I have a PII kicking around, it is perfectly fine for web browsing apart from the fact it's now running an unsupported operating system. Don't use it very often, but that's because this one is faster.
You would only notice the difference in things like benchmarking, video editing, gaming etc and yeah, in that situation a conroe would **** on a 754. But that is very much the tip of the iceberg, and for me, gaming isn't a priority, I play the odd bit of GTA:SA and Football Manager / Pro Evo and that's about it. Don't forget this may be a 754 but it is a 3700+, it's no slouch in terms of clock speed (it was the fastest 754 I could get, because it was all I wanted to upgrade). What would be noticeable is the fact it's not dual core, which is more of a gain, especially if you have more than one CPU-intensive task running at the same time. At the top of the ladder, I'd say the number of cores was more important than the clock speed. Is there much difference between, say, a 3500+ and a 5000+, all other factors (cache, cores) being equal? Course not. But there is a big difference between a single core 3500+ and a dual core 3500+.