Noob ?: Athlon 64 X2 4600+ vs Phenom II X3 720

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deanlewandowski

Discussion Starter · Nov 24, 2009

Thinking of upgrading my 939 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Manchester/ Motherboard to a Phenom II X3 720.

I dont know much about Processor powers, etc and Im hoping someone can tell me what the main differences between these two are and how much performance increase I would expect.
Looking at the MHz speeds they aren't that different, is the FSB, cache, etc going to make the difference?

Thanks for any help I can get.

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Conley

· #2 · Nov 24, 2009

Without going into detail: It will make a big difference. I went from an X2 5000 to an X4 940, and it was astounding.

The 720 is a tricore, it uses a better instruction set than older AMD chips, it overclocks very nicely, it has a good amount of cache, and it's cheap.

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BlackHoleSon

· #3 · Nov 24, 2009

Just the architecture alone of Phenom II over Athlon x2 would make it worth it.

Not to mention some motherboards are capable of unlocking a possible 4th core to make it a quad core, but thats never a promise. That along with the overclockability and the larger caches i say its a home run.

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