AMD Athlon X2 4200+

Hi, I need some gamers opinions, about a AMD Athlon X2 4200+, I guess its becoming a bit of a dated CPU now but how do you think it holds up on modern games and will it still be able to cope with future games for a couple of years? or is it becoming too dated now?

Cheers, 

But in a year, it should still be able to play games though right? but just on lower settings?jamflanuk

LOL. That depends mostly on your GPU, not on your processor. What GPU do you have. You can also overclock it, and get better performance. 

But it wont last you as long as an core 2 duo would.  

I have one since september '06 before the price drop and so far I can't complain. From stock 2,2 I've OC'ed it to 2,58 and runs a lot better. It can go higher, but my cheap ddr2 667 can't handle it. It does what it's meant to do very well. Games have yet to fully utilize multiple cores before this CPU becomes the bottleneck. What I'm saying is that it hasn't had a true chance to prove itself, maybe this will change when HL2 Ep. 2 comes out. I'll begin to worry if CPU wise the game performs badly. Until then, no way.

cool cheers for the feedback, at the moment i have a AMD 64 3400+ so it would be a pretty good upgrade for me but then I didn't know wether I should wait longer and just get a new mobo and a better dual core CPU as I only have a 939skt.

But my GPUs only a 7600GT and I've only got 1gb of RAM which I intend on upgrading to 2gb if I upgrade my CPU. 

cool cheers for the feedback, at the moment i have a AMD 64 3400+ so it would be a pretty good upgrade for me but then I didn't know wether I should wait longer and just get a new mobo and a better dual core CPU as I only have a 939skt.

But my GPUs only a 7600GT and I've only got 1gb of RAM which I intend on upgrading to 2gb if I upgrade my CPU. 

jamflanuk

YOu NEED to get a new mobo fo AMD X2 4200+. A mobo whit AM2, because it cant go on socket 939. And whit that also new ram, since 939 is using DDR, and AM2 is using DDR2.

That is queit upgrade if you will get that proc. And also a new RAM than, and new mobo.  

well although 939skts are being withdrawn there is still some backstock left of 939skt X2 4200+ left

e.g http://scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=505239