Hi, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to upgrade my 1.7ghz celeron proseser to a 2.00ghz Pentium 4 proseser, and upgrade my 384mb of ram to 1.00gb. Would this be a good idea?

hey man sound good but plz check your motherboard information before u upgrade. cuz sometime motherboard doesnt support it

The RAM upgrade will be worth it, but not the CPU upgrade. Celerons are slow, but a 2.0GHz P4 isn't worth upgrading to, even if you don't have to replace the motherboard. You know you're paying too much when you can get an Athlon XP 2800 333FSB for about the same price as the 2GHz P4. I'd wait for the Athlon 64s to get cheaper and make that your next upgrade.

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Andrew3: My two cents... I ask myself similar question's all the time. Anyone who is interested in computers. (Anyone who uses Linux is) Is constantly flooded with market hype about the fastest processor, ram, video card with the most memory, fastest biggest hard drive, etc.. So where does it end? Not everybody is filthy rich (Except Bill) So when faced with an upgrade question I have to ask myself. Does the computer do everything I wont it to do? Am I not able to run any program I wont, does it freeze, skip, do I run out of ram? If not then I will not upgrade. Bill and Intel have enough money! I do not! The thing is, ALL computers are in an accelerated state of technological decay. Anyone who buys a processor today. Will find themselves with a antique processor in 12 to 18 monts. So my thought is, the longer you Waite to upgrade. The higher power computer you will be able to build at the best cost. Now how I do to quench my appetite for computer technology? Get an old hard drive and explore the idiosyncrasies of the dawn of the computer age. By running dos/win3.11 95a or old versions of Linux. On your current box. Anyway that's by now 3 cents.. LOL....

Wonderful option mark1313; What does a used harddisk cost at ebay? On this side of the atlantic about 1$/GB. Isn't exploring the workings of our GNU-Linux "under the hood" also not a kind of game for some? It's a challenge in some way! Seeing that all those graphical configurations menu's are nothing more than distractions which limit you options? Realizing that most distributions of GNU-Linux are somehow really the same. But as you seem to like playing high quality games, some extra memory won't do any harm. Although 1 GB of ram could be some kind of exaggeration. Open a terminal and give the command: cat /proc/meminfo You now see the status of your memory, at this moment I'm using KDE/Firebird/Evolution/folding@home (a distributed computing project); Only 260MB of memory are used, so more than 500MB is useless at this moment. When you start using Swap memory, the amount of Ram (or lack of it) is starting to affect system performance.

you can never have enuff memory, the processer you have is still way faster than the motherboard bus and the programs you can run. mem = yes processer = no