Will this increase performance by a large margin?

theforce · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:55

Hi,
I currently have an A64+ 3200, 1Gb 2x512 PC3200 Geil Value Ram and a Radeonx1800xl.
I was thinking of a small upgrade around 350 pounds as a limit.
I was thinking of an A64+ X2 4400, another pair of Geil Ram and a new faster hard drive Seagate Barracude 320GB Sata2.

While i see that this be much better that the setup i have i have doubts that my Tagan PSU will cope. It's 420W 3rd-eYe or smt like that. I had no problems with it so far.
What do u think? Will it cope.
I wanted more peformance since i am using photoshop and coreldraw a lot along with other design software. What do you guys think?
And i don't want to go to Core2Duo since that means i have to get another mobo aswell and prolly a new PSU along.

easyrider · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:11

For 350 you could go conroe and have a massive boost in all those task you state.

With the money you get for the geil kit etc..this can be put towards some DDR2

6300
DS3 or 650i
Geil 6400

Your current psu will be fine.

C2D use less power than your current rig and less power than the X2's

masslac · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:15

easyrider said:
For 350 you could go conroe and have a massive boost in all those task you state.

With the money you get for the geil kit etc..this can be put towards some DDR2

6300
DS3 or 650i
Geil 6400

Your current psu will be fine.

C2D use less power than your current rig and less power than the X2's

I concur.

TheNuju · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:16

Hey

I will agree with that too, the C2D chips provide amazing performance and overclocking ability, for that sort of money id get an E6300 and a gigabyte board such as the DS3.

Mike

masslac · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:23

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-036-OK

Job done.

Dark_Angel · 11 Jan 2007 at 03:00

masslac said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-036-OK

Job done.

Isnt it more expensive with the bundles though? cause ya only get 1GB of ram

masslac · 11 Jan 2007 at 03:05

The bundle I linked to costs exactly the same as buying the three products seperately.

Nothing to prevent another 1GB kit being added later, anyway.

Kappa · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:51

i know its not exactly the same, but I went from a 3400+ with 1gb ram to a 2.4ghz C2D and 2 gigs of ram, it feels like I went from a 100mhz P1 to this c2d lol. Its that much better

theforce · 11 Jan 2007 at 19:20

Must be quite better. Selling my mobo, memory and ram and going for C2D. I am going into the darkside!

GazD · 11 Jan 2007 at 19:44

masslac said:
The bundle I linked to costs exactly the same as buying the three products seperately.

Nothing to prevent another 1GB kit being added later, anyway.

If he bought another 1Gb kit it would be 2gb but 4x512mb which isnt a good as 2x1Gb running in dual channel mode. It would be better to stretch to 2x1Gb now, or sell the 1Gb when he wants to get 2Gb

Dark_Angel · 11 Jan 2007 at 19:57

GazD said:
If he bought another 1Gb kit it would be 2gb but 4x512mb which isnt a good as 2x1Gb running in dual channel mode. It would be better to stretch to 2x1Gb now, or sell the 1Gb when he wants to get 2Gb

Why isn't it? I thought Conroes had no performance hit with 4 sticks? only problem is if he wanted to go 4GB in the future.

GazD · 11 Jan 2007 at 20:00

Dark_Angel said:
Why isn't it? I thought Conroes had no performance hit with 4 sticks? only problem is if he wanted to go 4GB in the future.

Im not sure, always thought dual channel was better.