is this really worth upgrade

[Bolerus]

Hi
my current system is

intel 2.8 northwood (not HT)
gigabyte gasinxp1934
1 gig mem (4x 256 sticks)

leadtech 6800le
maxtor 80gig hdd

I was thinking of "upgrading" to

Intel Pentium 4 524 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.06GHz (533FSB) with HT Technology - Retail

and an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

that way I coudl keep my G.card and ddr 1 memory (i do have a512 stick doing nothing, im sure i coudl stretch to one more )

but would I really see much of an upgrade. I have found the mb for 35 inc vat, the cpu is 55 ish and and extra 512 would be about 40 ish

so the whole updgrade would cost a little under 150. cheap upgrade, but would it be a good value one

I play some games, do a little bit of photo editing write the occasional database, so not much heavy duty demand really

Any comments would be aprecioated

 

[Bolerus]

I could alternatvly, spend the money on 3 sticks of 512s and double my memmory

 

[The Running Man]

not worth imo. save up and go conroe tbh!

 

[Duke]

Agreed - waste of money. Go for a 6300+board+ddr2.

 

[Bolerus]

the 6300 is only 1.8 though, I know its 64 bit, but that doesent seem much of an upgrade for the cost to me.


oh what happened to all the old comparrison charts that used to floa around so you can select your current cpu and what you were thinking of and get a grphical idea of the difference

 

[thefishdude]

ghz dont work how it used to check this out

http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=458&chart=166

they only have the 2.13 conroe but i put it against a 570 prescott 3.8ghz and the conroe walks all over it.

 

[Owenb]

the 6300 is only 1.8 though, I know its 64 bit, but that doesent seem much of an upgrade for the cost to me.


oh what happened to all the old comparrison charts that used to floa around so you can select your current cpu and what you were thinking of and get a grphical idea of the difference

1.8ghz vs 2.8ghz means nothing. They are very different chips, and the 6300 is a dual core. You are probably looking at a ~50% increase in performance.

 

[Bolerus]

where do you think a 2.8 northwood compare to the list on cpus. just so i can get a rough comparrison?

 

[Rroff]

Rough figures of synthetic performance... but a good indicator of real world performance...

1.86gig core 2 duo (E6300) - 17200
3.00gig core 2 duo - 27500
3.00gig Pentium 4 Northwood (800FSB w/ HT) - 7800
2.80gig Pentium 4 Northwood (533 FSB no HT) - 6200

Pretty much every E6300 will do 3gig with an Arctice Freezer 7 pro (or better) and a small vcore increase.

And just for kicks... throw in some AMD figures

X2 4400+ 2.20gig - 15700
A64 3200+ 2.00gig - 7200

 

[Bolerus]

nice one, thanks m8

the other thing is, if I move up to conroe, then i will have to move up to ddr2 as well, which wil give me more of performance increase (and i will haev to get a pci-express card instead of my agp 6800)

It's going to be expensive but a nice move up

thnks for the info, one thing that may be of note, I don't nor ever intend to overclock

 

[Rroff]

I'm hard pressed to find exact performance figures and I don't have a similiar system to test... but I think the 524 prescott would actually be slower or very similiar speed to your current CPU.