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Worth Upgrading?

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  • 11-05-2007 9:09pm
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    bush
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    Howdy, I have an athlon 64 bit 3400 and 1.5 gigs of ram. Would I notice a big difference if upgraded to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz and a 2 gigs of ram? I use the pc for music production.


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    far2gud
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    That is a pretty top of the range single core chip you have there, but still pales in comparison to what dual or even quad core can do.

    I would go conroe personally and clock the brains out of it with good air cooling. In answer to your question though..yes you would see a big difference with that chip imo


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    8T8
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    Dual core would be better route, in regards the RAM how memory intensive are the programs ?

    If they eat RAM for breakfast like I've heard some music production software does though no direct experience myself then getting a 64-bit Windows OS with 4GB of RAM might be a good idea.

    Of course before doing any of that you need to be sure any hardware is supported with 64-bit drivers as I understand some specialist music equipment has Windows drivers but they may be 32-bit only.

    You'll have to replace the RAM either way as Athlon 64 X2's and Core 2 Duo's both use DDR-2 ram your current system has DDR which is not compatible.


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