Upgrade from Athlon 64 X2 4000+ to 6400+ ?

[Justinkea]

Would this make much of a difference?

 

[middlemarkal]

no :-(

 

[bambiboom]

Justinkea,

I've had only one AMD system, an Optiplex 740 that arrived with an Athlon X2 64 3800+ (2.0GHz)which I changed to a 6000+ (3.0GHz) . the jump in clock speed is very similar to the one you're considering going from 2.1GHz to 3.2Ghz . I found the upgrade to be worthwhile as I paid only about $20 for the new CPU, the speed improvement was noticeable, and I didn't want to go through the trouble of reloading everything.

In general I'd say go ahead- it's a quick way to see a more responsive system, but whether it's worth it only you can answer. The thing is, a used 6400+ is about $60 which may be a fairly high percentage of the value of the system. You might- just to make sure- take the value of your current system plus the upgrade cost and poke around on Ebahh for systems for that total value. For example, if your system is worth $100, add the $60 and see what $160-180 will buy in used systems. Sometimes you can see amazingly good buys on obscure models of Dell Optiplex, Precisions and HP workstations, for example a Precision 690 with a 3.73GHz dual core Xeon can be very inexpensive and on the 690 you can add a second CPU later for for 4-cores. You can also search by the processor. Go to the ARK site and do a search for "i5" look for the fastest early series ones and then an Ebay search for desktops with that processors.

Of course, if you like you like your current system and would just like it to be a bit faster, the 6400+ is a quick, painless way to do that, but it only seems a bit expensive for the benefit.

Cheers,

BambiBoom