My New Upgrade

[shanenin]

I just upgraded my athlon xp 2600 to an athlon 64 x2 4200(dual core). In all honesty, I probably won't notice a huge difference from my old system. For some things it will be nice. I liked the idea of the 6150 onboard video. That will be good until I am able to upgrade to a dedicated video card. I paid $210 for the proc and asus board(nforce4 chipset). My friend took great care of it.

Edited November 22, 2006 by shanenin

[lefty1953]

I just upgraded my athlon xp 2600 to an athlon 64 x2 4200(dual core). In all honesty, I probably won't notice a huge difference from my old system. For some things it will be nice. I liked the idea of the 6150 onboard video. That will be good until I am able to upgrade to a dedicated video card. I paid $210 for the proc and asus board(nforce4 chipset). My friend took great care of it.

That will be a nice improvement. Get the best graphics card you can afford. Or save up and get one you can't afford.

[shanenin]

For now onboard video is doing good running vista. One nice thing about the upgrade is pci-express. Most all of the cheaper video cards need pci-express to run. The older agp video cards are getting expensive. If business picks up, i may be upgrading to a nice video card sometime in January.

[shanenin]

I am definitely impessed. Using "nero recode", I converted three movies from dvd to mpeg4 format in about 1.5 hours. My old athlon xp took more then this amount of time to do just one movie.

If I tried to encode just one movie it would only average about 65% cpu usage. So long as I do two movies at a time it uses 100% of the cpu available.