Worth the upgrade?

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Hi guys

I am currently in the process of upgrading my setup one step at a time. I have recently purchased 2gig of XMS3500. Now I have just seen a lovely drop in price of the AMD64 4000+. I currently run a 3500 and plan to go to an SLI mainboard towards October. What I would like to know is whether the jump to AM2 is a really big improvement or just a slight one. Having just spent the money on this ram I would need to consider changing that also if I were to go for AM2. So is it worth buying this 4000+ and then getting an SLI PCI-E mainboard with accompanying gfx cards in October?

TIA

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Thanks for replies guys. I currently have an AGP 939 board though and want to go to an SLI PCI-E board. Now obviously the chip can be ported over but is it worth spending £100 on this new cpu to upgrade from my 3500+?

I suppose it would mean that when I upgrade the board later in year then I can sell this current board with a 3500+ chip which would be more sellable as a package. Have 1gig of ram too that I could use. Hmmm food for thought......

How much of a performance increase from 3500 to 4000? I hear my credit card calling

Thx again


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Sorted sig, sorry didn't know. With regard to games, I play Eve Online, Battlefield 2, CS Source, HL2. Games I plan to play include Huxley, Enemy Territory - Quake Wars and Battlefield 2142.

I aim to put together a reasonably high end system but don't need to be cutting edge. If I am going to see a noticeable improvement from purchasing the 4000+ and then using it as the base for my SLI system in a few months then I am happy to cough up the £100. If the SLI system will do just as well on the 3500 then I won't bother for now.

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