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Got a Northwood Pentium4 3.2 system with 1gig Ram and 9800XT. Its main task is graphics manipulation and video work. Would I notice much benefit from getting a s939 AGP board (eg MSI Neo 2) and putting a Dual Core Opteron in it?
Keep s478 or upgrade to s939
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The programs I use are the Pegasus TMpeg ones which are supposidly optimised for Pentium 4s
Oh and what s939 AGP motherboard would every recommend? I have the Abit AV8 3rd Eye and the MSI Neo2 Plat here in different systems. I was thinking the DFI NF3-Ultra
NF4 is all PCIE (I think) - it must be AGP
Its a non-starter - no Gigabit LAN - that is a must. I also need 3 PCI slots.
Just need to clarify a couple of things - I have extra DDR dual channel RAM here, including a spare 2gb kit, so dont want to have to move to ddr2 unless I have to. Also already got both a 165 and 170 dual-channel opterons here. Also video card performance for gaming isnt an issue, got a another PC I use for that.
That said if video encoding performance would be significantly better with a new pentium 4 and ddr2 ram etc I would have a big sale and go for that.
Of course the other option would be to upgrade the cooler and overclock the 3.2 northwood for better performance.
That said if video encoding performance would be significantly better with a new pentium 4 and ddr2 ram etc I would have a big sale and go for that.
Of course the other option would be to upgrade the cooler and overclock the 3.2 northwood for better performance.
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I tried raising the FSB by 7 to 207 and system will not boot. Seems something doesnt like running out of spec.