modern mGPUs vs old-school GPUs

[shrimpius]

So my beloved P4P800 died a violent death after some overclocking... A terrible tragedy... Anyway, I was hoping you guys can help me to decide what to buy instead.

My old rig was p4 3ghz 1mb (Prescott, and nice one I might add ^_^ ), P4P800 (deluxe), 512Mb DDR 333 (why are you looking at me? I was tight on money that day, and lazy to buy more the other day) and GeForce FX5700 Ultra 128Mb. I have to say I was quite happy with my system, except for some lags after long work, it was fine.

After studying some reviews, prices (I remember days when 4Mb RAM costed 200+$ ) I decided to buy this one: AMD Phenom x4 9350e, ASUS M3N78-EM (8300), 2x1GB DDR2 1066Mhz. I stopped on AMD/Nvidia because I like AMD more than Intel and I very liked the idea of HybridPower. I'm going to buy GTX 260+ or some G350 (is it?) in 3-4 (6-7 ) months.

And here's the question for you - is my future AMD rig gonna be faster in old games (like UT2004, Dawn of War and etc.) than my previous? I suppose it will be faster in ordinary work/video watching and etc. but the games?..

Thanks in adnvance, and sorry for terrible english.

 

[Pinchy]

Welcome to the forums bud .

The quad will be better than your old prescott in older games, but not as good as it will be in current games. Yet if you got a lot of background apps and processes, the quad will come in very handy!

 

[ascstinger]

itll be faster in both, the old prescotts were inferior to athlon 64's back in their day, so a phenom, with all its architectural updates should wipe the floor with that pentium. and the geforce 8300 should be faster than the fx5700, I dont know by how much but it should

 

[farlex85]

Absolutely it will be faster. Everything about your new system is a few years better than your old, and well, you know what a few years does to computers. It will be leagues faster. The phenom can't touch the core 2, but easily destroys a pentium 4.

 

[shrimpius]

Thank for your replies guys!

A friend of mine gave me his old rig for few weeks (until I get mine, shiny and new ). It's like my old one, but has 1024Mb ram and geforce 6600GT 128Mb (with oc'ed memory 1000->1125). As I've studied in some vga charts 3450 and 8400 can't match 6600gt (pci-e one), 6600gt is like 8500gt. And 8300 (same as 780g) is a little slower than 3450. But (there's always a hairy but there) 6600gt is paired with a single-core P4 and 8300 will be paired with The quad-core Phenom (witch is, of course, slower than Core, but A64 architecture was always faster than NetBurst). And I suppose in new games 8300/Phenom will be much faster (just because 8300 supports dx10 ) but in good dx9 games (like Oblivion, HL2 and etc.) which are at least 2-threaded optimized what system will take the cup? And if takken, will be a little cup of poor silver, or a shiny pure 24-carat gold one?