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CPU upgrade. Is it worth it?

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Name: perky_pat
Date: October 20, 2005 at 01:56:53 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: P4 2.4 GHz/1GB DDR PC2100
Comment:

Hello,

I have a P4 2.4 GHz with 1GB of DDR PC2100 RAM and a GeForce 6800LE. If I got a new CPU (maybe a pentium 3.0 or 3.2 GHz for around £100), would I see a great improvement in gaming (halflife 2 etc). Or is the improvement only slight and not worth the upgrade?



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Response Number 1
Name: plainandsimple
Date: October 20, 2005 at 02:02:58 Pacific
Reply:

Does your MoBo support a newer CPU ??


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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59
Date: October 20, 2005 at 02:22:59 Pacific
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What FSB and Slot does your motherboard support/have? The P4 2.4gHz is probably a socket 478 and it came in several different varieties in either 400, 533 or 800 mHz FSB. That means your motherboard is based on either 100,133 or 200 basic FSB (The P4 quad pumps the underlying motherboard setting) Before considering a CPU upgrade you need to know whether your motherboard supports the higher FSB as the socket 478 chips at 3gHz or higher fun on fsb 800 (4x200). The fact you have PC2100 ram tells me your FSB is based on 133mHz. To upgrade your CPU you would need to know your motherboard can be run at 200 and you you would need to replace your ram with PC3200. Your 100 pound upgrade will end up costing you a whole lot more by the time you replace the motherboard, CPU and ram.

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Response Number 3
Name: perky_pat
Date: October 20, 2005 at 08:47:18 Pacific
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Thanks for the response. I am not sure about my motherboard. It is a Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra, I was afraid that there would be some motherboard upgrade problems! Maybe I should just wait until I can afford a whole new PC then...


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Response Number 4
Name: perky_pat
Date: October 20, 2005 at 09:26:21 Pacific
Reply:

I just realised, my RAM is PC2700, I upgraded to the maximum that my motherboard could use.


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Response Number 5
Name: Richard59
Date: October 20, 2005 at 13:36:16 Pacific
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check here:
http://us.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/CPUSupportList/CPUSupportList_List.htm

the highest CPU supported is p4 3.06ghz (HT)northwood core with fsb533.

Whether you will see a dramatic performance increase between your 2.4 and the 3.06, I do not know. That would be your last upgrade on this motherboard.

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Response Number 6
Name: GX1 Man
Date: October 20, 2005 at 19:30:40 Pacific
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the answer to the original question is no, unless you do a lot of intense gaming.

You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users


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Response Number 7
Name: perky_pat
Date: October 23, 2005 at 14:55:33 Pacific
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I can only seem to find a p4 3.06ghz (HT)northwood core with FSB 800MHz, would that work in my mother board?


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