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| Thread ID: 142049 | 2016-04-14 23:23:00 | Is this an upgrade? | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 1419168 | 2016-04-14 23:23:00 | My friend has one of these AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor 3GHz And I want to know if giving him my old processor will be an upgrade for him. (Mobo included of course) Intel Core i7-920 2.66Ghz 8MB Cache *Quad Core* 2000Mhz Socket B (LGA1366) |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1419169 | 2016-04-14 23:35:00 | Yes it will but whether it's a noticeable upgrade is dependant on what he uses it for. If he's low on CPU power for something it may be enough to do the Job, if his old machine just feels slow a SSD might have a bigger apparent impact than a CPU upgrade. If you google 2 things with "vs" between them you tend to get results comparing the two. For example "i7 920 vs phenom 2 x4 940" finds a page on CPUboss cpuboss.com Which would indicate the 920 is a slight upgrade. Incidentally I visit CPUboss fairly often and I know a lot of people don't consider it a very accurate site - you should take the figures on it as a rough Idea at best. If you look at the actual benchmark results it seems like more of an upgrade than the top of the page implies. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1419170 | 2016-04-14 23:42:00 | Same results on Passmark. The intel is in the High end CPU's with a score of 4993 Where as the AMD in in the high-Midrange chart with a score of 3648 Higher is better. www.cpubenchmark.net Compare Page www.cpubenchmark.net |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1419171 | 2016-04-15 00:02:00 | Another resource I often refer to is Toms hardware. They have various charts like this one www.tomshardware.com which puts CPU's into tiers based on their gaming performance. The 2 processors are 1 tier apart. Bear in mind this is about gaming only. How Tom's chart works is CPU's in the same tier will tend to play the same games at the same settings and give similar frame rates, 1 or 2 tiers in either direction is a fairly small difference and they recommend 3 tiers as the minimum upgrade for a good performance boost. It does not mean all CPU's in the same tier have the same processing power, just that the differences in games is usually not big enough to notice. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1419172 | 2016-04-15 00:09:00 | Thats the problem when comparing AMD to intel. Unless one is greatly more powerful than the other Say a Sempron compared to a i5 then the real advantage /or not is not always noticeable. | wainuitech (129) | ||
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