Upgrade from Mobile 2500 @2.5ghz to Socket 754 Venice 3400+ @ 2.8ghz

[Gingerben]

Hiya all

At the moment i have a mobile barton at 2.5ghz on a abit nf2 with 6800gs oc and 2gb of g.skill pc4000 hz, ive been offered a DFI NF3 Lanparty 250gb with a 754 [email protected], for a very good price including a xp-90, the thing is i want to know is, do you recon i will see a performance increase, and the other thing is will i need to upgrade to windows xp 64bit to get the most out of it.


Many thanks

Ben

 

[Justintime]

You'll see a bit of a boost yes, whats the asking price? If its good then i'd go for it and no, no need for XP64 to take advantage of the upgrade.

 

[Gingerben]

Its £90 for mobo cpu and xp-90 and 92mm panaflo fan, just think its pretty good as i can hang on to my agp card for a bit longer.

 

[pastymuncher]

Which Venice is that? If it's the 3000+, which are the only ones i have seen on 754 (and then extremely rare), then that thing is overclocked to death. Stock speed should be 2ghz, so that has a 800mhz overclock. What voltage is he giving it and what are the temps like? Do you have a good case with good airflow?

Yes you should see a boost in performance and no you will not need XP64. If it is a 3000+ then it's not that good a deal either.

 

[Gingerben]

Its the 3400 venice, ive been reading around and there sposted to be pretty good clockers and yes there are aparrantly rare but its not the 3000+.

 

[Justintime]

Getting it from across the pond are you? There are 3400+ Venice 754s i think i saw one a few months back in a clients rig.

 

[Gingerben]

yeah man its £90 all in including shipping ect that why i thinks its a good deal, but all im after in a bit more power in loading games etc so hopefully it should be fine for my needs and it gets me into the 64bit scene i know its only a socket 754 but it lets me keep me agp card which i find fine in most games.

 

[Justintime]

Do ask him what core voltage hes running to get that OC, might be wayy more than the chip would be comfortable with in the long haul.

 

[Minstadave]

That'd give you a pretty hefty boost I would have thought, increased clock speed and better clock for clock efficiency, you'd get atleast a 20% increase in CPU performance.

 

[MikeTimbers]

Seems like you're going from one dead socket to another. Yes, it's cheap but I don't think you'll see enough of a difference to warrant the hassle. I'd wait until you can justify going to AM2 or Core2Duo.

 

[Gingerben]

I know its a dead socket but, all im after is bit more power and actually be able 2 run my memory at its rated speed at the mo all i can run is 220 due 2 the chipset, and with the a64 i can ave some fun in the bios, got bord of overclocking my mobile and cant really afford a core duo 2 at the minite, and find my graphics card alright at the mo, and i recon £90 for Venice @ 2.8ghz, xp-90c panaflo fan and a dfi lanparty nf3 and shipin from america aint all that bad, i know it outdated but its better than the 1 i got, and seeing next time i upgrade ill have to change every thing like memory the lot, i recon its ok for now,

 

[Minstadave]

I know its a dead socket but, all im after is bit more power and actually be able 2 run my memory at its rated speed at the mo all i can run is 220 due 2 the chipset, and with the a64 i can ave some fun in the bios, got bord of overclocking my mobile and cant really afford a core duo 2 at the minite, and find my graphics card alright at the mo, and i recon £90 for Venice @ 2.8ghz, xp-90c panaflo fan and a dfi lanparty nf3 and shipin from america aint all that bad, i know it outdated but its better than the 1 i got, and seeing next time i upgrade ill have to change every thing like memory the lot, i recon its ok for now,

If its not going to cost you much and you're going to have fun overclocking it I say why not? I've played around with S754 even after its death and its great fun, I had the DFI and a Turion mobile chip, made for a very fast second system that could be run almost passively.

 

[manveruppd]

Yeah, in general I think it's worthwhile spending a little more in order to get onto a socket with a decent upgrade path, but 90GBP is too good a deal to pass up imho.