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| Thread ID: 74976 | 2006-12-12 02:58:00 | Whats the best SPU i can get with my mother board? | Motokid600 (11183) | Press F1 |
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| 506072 | 2006-12-12 03:26:00 | Oh, good. That will save him the time looking for a Northwood 3.6GHz lol | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 506073 | 2006-12-12 03:28:00 | i use my comp for MAJOR gaming, but...i have to ask another question, my gfx card is and AGP card as is my mobo. Soooo, i dont want to have to replace my gfx card. so if i were to get a new mobo that would support a Duo, will it be able to use an AGP gfx card? mainly becuse im scoping some out on ebay and im finding Duos that come with mobos that are compatible with them, but im also hoping that these mobos will support AGP cards... | Motokid600 (11183) | ||
| 506074 | 2006-12-12 03:32:00 | Only way to know that is to do a search on the maker's site. And see if its got an AGP port before u buy it. Even if its got AGP, you'll still have to buy a mobo and ram, if you want something better than 478 pin. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 506075 | 2006-12-12 03:45:00 | Going from a P4 to a P4 3.6 gig is a huge waste of money. You would be better served saving that money towards a new platform, preferably Conroe, understanding you will need a new MB,RAM and GPU. If not you should consider a New motherboard and AMD X2 as a cheaper alternative as you may be able to keep that ram, in fact you can probably still pick up a AGP board if you had too. |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
| 506076 | 2006-12-12 04:15:00 | Well, why cant i take the ram cards out of the mother board i have now and put them in the new one? | Motokid600 (11183) | ||
| 506077 | 2006-12-12 05:03:00 | Well, why cant i take the ram cards out of the mother board i have now and put them in the new one? Chances are your RAMs are DDR1 400, and what you want is a C2D mobo, which only supports DDR2 RAMs. As for keeping your card (AGP), I don't know any C2D mobos that has AGP slot. So, I guess you'll have to buy new mobo, CPU, RAM and video card. Considering all that, maybe a new power supply too. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 506078 | 2006-12-12 07:01:00 | +1 to above posters. Save your money, 3Ghz isn't too shabby - if you are seeing gaming slowdowns, it is more likely your graphics card, but they don't get too much better than a 6800 on AGP anyway. If you go core duo, you're really getting 2 slower processors (which can work in parallel, but most games aren't coded for this), so your 3Ghz CPU is still fast, it just wont multitask in windows as well as a core duo (or Athlon X2) might. Make sure you're not running CPU intensive tasks in the background while you're playing a game. The money you'd spend on a 3.6Ghz CPU would be much better saved unitl you can upgrade everything. |
trig42 (11325) | ||
| 506079 | 2006-12-12 09:43:00 | +1 to above posters. Save your money, 3Ghz isn't too shabby - if you are seeing gaming slowdowns, it is more likely your graphics card, but they don't get too much better than a 6800 on AGP anyway. If you go core duo, you're really getting 2 slower processors (which can work in parallel, but most games aren't coded for this), so your 3Ghz CPU is still fast, it just wont multitask in windows as well as a core duo (or Athlon X2) might. Make sure you're not running CPU intensive tasks in the background while you're playing a game. The money you'd spend on a 3.6Ghz CPU would be much better saved unitl you can upgrade everything. lol Dude, here we go again. Even the slowest e6300@1.8 gig will chew up a P4 3.0 and spit it out in ANY game SINGLE or dual threaded THREADED, as it performs more operations per clocks cycle. In fact it will easily out perform a P4 3.6 gig in most apps and games as Exhibit"A" shows a P4 3.7 gig!! EXTREME getting is ass handed to it by the lowest Conroe e6300@1.8 .....lala just normal games!! www.anandtech.com Exhibit"B" shows how crap Pentium D is which is the original Intel dual core (probably where you views originate from) www.xbitlabs.com I will admiit the P4 3.7E wins a few but the e6300 is overall faster. The 3.0 stands no chance in heaven!! The p4 3.6 will get beaten probably 90%+ of the time Oh, and Overclock a e6300 to around 3.3-3.5 gig which is "very common and easy to do" and all of a sudden its performance matches to around e6700!. BTW I agree with you his video card is the bottleneck. |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
| 506080 | 2006-12-12 10:08:00 | I think the short answer this guy needs is... P4 3.6 GHz. But if you can find one it's most unlikely to be worth the cost for the minimal performance gain it'll give. Recommend... keep whatever cash you have, live with your existing setup until you can afford a more comprehensive upgrade. Remember... probably only 5% of your friends or gaming opponents have better machines than yours. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 506081 | 2006-12-12 10:12:00 | So your video card is a vanilla 6800, right? No GT/Ultra/GS/XT? If yes, the recommended minimum CPU speed is 2800MHz, as seen in this German website: www.3dchip.de So I'm not being too negative about your CPU bottlenecking the 6800.... |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
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