Upgrading CPU

[haribo85]

Hi,

I currently have a Athlon 2400+ chip running on my socket a board. It posts as running as 1800+ and always have done - Im not sure whether this is a faulty chip but I am now on my second board and it still does it.

I am looking to upgrade my system - although I dont have much money at the moment - so I was looking at getting a socket a AMD Sempron 3000+.

I was just wondering whether I will notice much notice in between the two, as the 2400+ runs at 1.5ghz and the AMD Sempron 3000+ says it runs at 2.0ghz?

Thanks

 

[haribo85]

Hi, I am not sure what it is running at - I just left it at defaults out the box.

 

[haribo85]

Thanks for your advice - very much needed.

I think I will hold off.

The motherboard is fairly new so it should handle it but I wont push it any way.

***********EDIT************
I have a MSI motherboard with things like high performance mode and dynamic overclocking which i dont really want to get into and i have left alone.

But I have just been into the bios and the CPU FSB was set to 100, I have changed it to 133 and its now running as a 2400+ at 2.0ghz.
Now do I need to fiddle with any of the other things to run stable?
Things like:
CPU Ratio - which is set to auto
CPU Voltage - which is set to auto


Thanks again

 

[haribo85]

Thanks for your advice.