which is better cuz currently i have a celeron d 2.93 and i have recently purchased a pentium 4 3.0ghz prescott core should i install the new processor or keep the old?? really i just wanna play oblivion and left 4 dead without it lagging so much. i currently have a 6200 for a graphic card cuz all i have is pci slots. and 1.5 gigs of ddr ram. so will the pentium 4 be much of an upgrade or not???

1. the 3.0GHz Prescott is an 800MHz FSB CPU...your board only supports up to 533MHz FSB. So if it works at all, it will only run at 2.0GHz. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... 2. you need a new video card, not a CPU. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...

so installing the pentium 4 will slow things down? i'm a novice at this stuff i'm sorry...

Let me try again - you need a new VIDEO CARD, not a new CPU! I posted a link to a Sparkle GeForce 9400 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI video card for $75 w/free shipping.

I doubt that a 9400GT PCI would provide much of a boost over the 6200. The PCI bus provides 133MB/sec of shared bandwidth. Today's high end hard drives can sustain around 90MB/sec and can burst 280MB/sec. If PCI can limit HDD and gigabit ethernet performance, imagine what it does to 3D video performance. IMHO, you should avoid buying a new processor and video card. Keep saving till you can build a PCI Express system. A 16-lane PCI-E 2.0 slot provides video cards with 16 GB/sec of total bandwidth (8 GBps up/ 8 GBps down). Socket 939 Dual core Opteron 185 @ 3.2GHz on A8N32-SLI Deluxe 4GB of CL2 PC3200 2x 8800GTS in SLI Blu-Ray and HD-DVD X-Fi Titanium for PCI-E Vista x64. Samsung 24" LCD

"A 16-lane PCI-E 2.0 slot provides video cards with 16 GB/sec of total bandwidth (8 GBps up/ 8 GBps down)." And apprently that still isn't fast enough for the computer industry considering PCI-E 3.0 is around the corner. I remember back in the days where one standard would last for years and now the way the computer industry is going a new standard will only last about a couple of years now before it too gets replaced. Iron Sharpens Iron.