Kudistos Megistos said:
Who told you that? Athlon II is AMD's "budget" line of processors. Or rather, was. They're last generation's budget processors. They're easily outperformed by Phenom IIs and Intel Core IIs and even more outperformed by the i5 and i7 series. That said, if gaming is the most intensive thing you do with your PC and you're not going to play everything with maximum graphics settings, the Athlon II will see you through for the time being. But you'll probably want to replace it in a year or two. Here's a PROTIP for buying processors. Ignore the clock speed. It doesn't actually tell you that much about how a CPU will perform. A modern high-end processor will be able to do more in each clock cycle than an older, budget processor. You might look at two CPUs that both have a 3.0GHz clock speed but have different prices and think that the cheaper one is a bargain, but when you compare how they actually perform, you'll see that there can actually be a big difference. I'd recommend looking at benchmarks on sites like tomshardware.com when you're buying components; they give you a better idea of how well they actually perform. Don't get me wrong, benchmarks aren't perfect, but they're still very useful. Clock speed is only useful when you're looking at CPUs from the same family (for example, when you're comparing one Athlon II to another). Unfortunately, when you're buying processors, you usually get what you pay for, so if you want performance, you'll need to splash out. |
Thanks for the tip and the data!!
I had no desktop but an old laptop when I bought my new PC and I had little knowledge on hardware these days so it was as if I had to learn it from scratch.
For the money I had and my spectations I think I got me a pretty good computer. I'm planning on upgrading eventually but for the time being I think I'll be ok as I can play the games I want at a better quality to a PS3, and that's enough for me.
