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 Posted: Sat, 2nd Apr 2005 16:13 Post subject: How much improvement will I see if.... |
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How much improvement will I see if I upgrade my Ram from 512MB PC133 SDRam to 512MB PC3200 DDR Ram ??
Currently my system is -
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
512MB PC133 SDRam
Geforce 4 ti4200 128mb
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| Posted: Sat, 2nd Apr 2005 16:22 Post subject: |
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Does your mobo support DDR?
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Sat, 2nd Apr 2005 17:47 Post subject: |
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Id say a fair amount, and it would be a start towards building a new system. I don't see why buying the ram would be a bad idea!
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Apr 2005 19:09 Post subject: |
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Well buying a new socket A cpu aint bad either and not expensive!
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Apr 2005 19:28 Post subject: |
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buying DDR ram is not a very smart idea at the moment. All new intel chipsets are already using DDR2 ram, and all future amd platforms will use DDR2 as well, so you can't use the DDR memory in a new system
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Apr 2005 20:59 Post subject: |
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DDR2 is expensive and does sometimes perform worse than high quality ddr1. But things could have changed in the latest months. Dunno
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 3rd Apr 2005 22:15 Post subject: |
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Yes it would. And there are only DDR2 supported motherboards for Intel Prescott cpu's. Just buy yourself some decent low latency DDR1 sticks.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 11:27 Post subject: |
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Yes, you're right. I may have expressed myself wrong but I meant that DDR2 is only available for Intel Prescott today, not that Intel only is compatible with DDR2. AMD64 motherboards with DDR2 will come soon.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 12:51 Post subject: |
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Nope, it needs lower latency and I would rather use a AMD64. The Intel EM64 ones aren't really performing so well today.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 19:04 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 21:37 Post subject: |
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By the way how much diffrence i will see if i change my Intel P4 1.6 CPU
to Celeron 2.93D CPU ?
And does bying Asus P5P800 mother was a good thing to do?
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 22:16 Post subject: |
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Not much Lestat, Celeron is indeed a bad CPU for gaming, encoding etc
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2005 22:28 Post subject: |
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You will see a minor performance boost if you upgrade your video card to something last-gen (upgrading to current-gen is worthless because your mobo and CPU are a bottleneck). You would see a very nice performance boost if you upgraded to 1gb of DDR. Overall though, its probally better if you just build a new system.
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