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I'm currently running a 2.4 northwood, Abit IC7 (875 chipset), 2gb PC 3200 kingston CAS 3, a Radeon 9800 pro, and a 160gb SATA hard drive. It's currently watercooled, so it's nice and quiet, but it's starting to show it's age, and I'm looking at upgrades. I don;t need anything too 'bleeding edge', as I mostly use my PC for online gaming, web browsing, and a bit of office work.
What sort of performance increase could I expect from going to an AMD dual core 3800, Nforce 4 SLI board, and an X800XL graphics card? Looking at the comparisons on Toms hardware, the CPU would be between 20 and 50% faster, and the graphics card about 50%+ faster. Are these realistic figures?
Also, how noisy are the stock AMD heatsink and fans, as I don't want to go back to having bleeding ears....
What sort of performance increase could I expect from going to an AMD dual core 3800, Nforce 4 SLI board, and an X800XL graphics card? Looking at the comparisons on Toms hardware, the CPU would be between 20 and 50% faster, and the graphics card about 50%+ faster. Are these realistic figures?
Also, how noisy are the stock AMD heatsink and fans, as I don't want to go back to having bleeding ears....
