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Upgrading from AXP @ 2400 Mhz

ramirez

ramirez

ramirez

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Hi guys,

Not sure if I need to upgrade yet - what is a cheap yet noticable CPU/motherboard upgrade from an Nforce 2 board and Athlon XP at 200/2400 Mhz ?
 
Depends what you're doing with it. I upgraded from NF2 and XP-M at 2500 to NF3 and Opty at 2750 and only Folding@Home really noticed the difference.
 
Some games but not much else. My graphics card is a 9800 pro so fairly old as well. Think i'll stick with what i've got for the time being :D
 
These benchmarks might help you a little. I just moved from a 2.2GHz Barton to a x2 3800 @ 2.4GHz, using the same RAM (1Gb Corsair LL) and AGP vid card (X800Pro flashed to XT). The earth did not move for me, though I did get a very useful upgrade in FPS in the flight sim I fly most. That was down to the shift to 64-bit architecture though, not the spare core, which mainly sits there picking its nose and staring into space.

If I was buying again tomorrow I'd get a faster single core CPU, no doubt about it. With dual core you have twice as many chances of it not being stable when overclocked, and the benefits are exaggerated. In the future it may be very useful, but tomorrow's a big place.

http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mcpbench22ko.jpg

Andrew McP
 
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