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WonderBob

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I recently got a 8600GT, did not buy the card, got it from someone else.

My current machine is a AMD 3000+ socket 939 with 1 gig RAM, slightly overclocked (running at about 1.9Ghz).

Will the CPU hinder the performance of the card (for gaming)? by how much?

I did not really plan a upgrade, so dont really want to spend a lot of money, but also dont want the card to go to waste.

Will it be worthwhile to get a better 939 CPU? Anybody have one lying around?

Or should I just look at going the whole way (MB, CPU and memory)?
 
Yes your card will perform better with a faster CPU, but only with minimal increase..your 8600 card is very similar to the 7600 series in terms of performance and believe me I went from Sempron 2800 to Dual Core 3600 with not much of a difference. Rather spend the cash on extra memory.
 
The 939 chips are pretty cheap now, if you wanted to upgrade to a 3800+ X2 chip it wouldn't be a bad idea. Good for general use any way.

2GB RAM might be a better choice though, but i wouldn't waste the money on a whole new setup.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
The 939 chips are pretty cheap now, if you wanted to upgrade to a 3800+ X2 chip it wouldn't be a bad idea. Good for general use any way.

2GB RAM might be a better choice though, but i wouldn't waste the money on a whole new setup.
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That's what I thought too.

Rather spend money on usefull stuff like more/better memory and bigger/faster HDD.

If anyone wants to give me a old 939 CPU, I wont fight you :)
 
i doubt your cpu is holding that crappy card back eh

might be wrong though, its not crappy just nvidia is taking a chance

your cpu will be fine


wonderbob i have an old 3000+ 939 cpu i'll let go for 250 bucks

its hardly been used, i bought it for a client and they somehow ripped the fan off the mobo and the socket was broken was replaced with am2 so its istting here doing nothing :)
 
shouldn't be too much of a problem there are benches on the net where a 7600GT out performs the 8600GT. RAM would be a better spend than a new CPU.
 
killadoob said:
wonderbob i have an old 3000+ 939 cpu i'll let go for 250 bucks
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That's exactly what I have, so except if you know how to combine them and make me a dual-core, I'm gonna have to pass on your offer :)

I dont really care whether the card is crappy or not, or whether the 7600GT outperforms it, becasuse it was free !!!! :)

It def outperforms my 6600GT, gives me close to 5000 more points on 3DMARK03.
 
supersunbird said:
There 939 X2 chips are expensive from my suppliers because they are not made anymore and didnt get a pricecut like the AM2s
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Ja, I was thinking about this, but those chips are really cheap second hand, especially seeing as they are worth even less new now.

Even when I wanted to buy a 939 chip a few months ago the suppliers hardly had any 939 Dual cores.
 
btw guys check a couple more benchamrks on the 8600GT than just the one where the 7600GT beats it in one game.

It beat a 7900GT in one or two very new games, and DX10 will be even better for it. Still a bit dissapointing though..
 
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