{"id":679,"date":"2007-02-28T07:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T06:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/28\/hard-gamers-choice-athlon64-x2-5200-vs-core-2-duo-e6400\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T06:48:13","slug":"hard-gamers-choice-athlon64-x2-5200-vs-core-2-duo-e6400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/28\/hard-gamers-choice-athlon64-x2-5200-vs-core-2-duo-e6400\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard gamers choice: Athlon64 X2 5200+ vs. Core 2 Duo E6400"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Walton, of LegionHardware, has been doing a very interesting comparison. He’s interested in getting the best possible CPU for a gamer willing to pay around $220 for his CPU. This is a nice price point because it seems to be around what most gamers are ready to pay to have a fast machine, and not too high (to avoid paying too much for little more performance).<\/p>\n

I’ll let you check the details (benchmarks for memory, CPU performance and PC games), but the comparison tells that the Intel CPU is still the best bang for your buck<\/a>, but the difference is quite small.<\/p>\n

If he had to choose, Steven Walton says he would go for the Intel CPU. I admit easily (I already wrote here about that) that I don’t wont to come back to a monopolistic position for Intel, so I’d choose AMD and the Athlon64 X2<\/strong> instead. But the choice is yours (my next machine will wait a few more weeks).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Walton, of LegionHardware, has been doing a very interesting comparison. He’s interested in getting the best possible CPU for a gamer willing to pay around $220 for his CPU. This is a nice price point because it seems to be around what most gamers are ready to pay to have a fast machine, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpu-memory","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}