athlon xp mobile to opteron should i upgrade ?????

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I currently have an athlon xp 2500m @2.3 GHz
now that you can pick them up cheap second hand im contemplating upgrading to an opteron @ close to 3GHz + a DFI motherboard

i dont play games at all

THG charts suggest i could expect about a 25% increase

so to those of you that did this upgrade was it worth it?

thx

 

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pc is used for quite a lot of video editing

 

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There should be a fair few cheap second hand opterons popping up next week, due to everyone getting there new cheapy x2's.... So perhaps a second hand cpu upgrade would save you a few £££'s...

Sam C

that was the plan should be able to get a secondhand dfi MB + an opteron which is known to clock to near 3GHZ for £140
maybe even cheaper in a couple of weeks time once conroes really take off

should be able to reuse my 2x512mb pc3200 geil value and hard drives and optical drives
may need a new gfx card if motherboard is only pcie and possibly a new psu