[INDENT]I’ve been looking at the AMD Phenom 9850 2.5ghz for some time now and I’m not sure if I should upgrade or not. Currently I am using an AMD X2 5600+ clocked at 2.8ghz. All I really do is play PC Games such as “The Orange Box” and other new titles (SPORE).[/INDENT]
[INDENT]When I’m not using my computer I allow World Community Grid to use my processor for their research. This is where I see the largest benefit. [/INDENT]
[INDENT]I’m also torn between the clock speeds. Would it be a smart decision to go from 2.8ghz to only 2.5ghz? I’m sure I could OC it though.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]So what do you think I should do, upgrade or not? Please don’t tell me to go with Intel as It is not an option.[/INDENT]
System Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ 2.8ghz
ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe Motherboard
4gigs of DDR2 4-4-4-12
ZOTAC ZT-88TES3P-FCP GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0
10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor 150gigs
OS: Vista 32bit Ultimate and Ubuntu 8.04
Your motherboard doesn’t support Phenom CPU’s. If you wanted to upgrade you’d have to buy a new motherboard that supports AM2+ sockets.
With that said, it isn’t worth the upgrade. Your OC’d Athlon is good enough.
In that case, the Phenom is definitely worth the purchase in my opinion. It’s a Quad-Core compared to your Dual-Core and has a bigger L2 and L3 cache size. Its basically faster.