Is it worth upgrading my CPU?

Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU or
should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU later?
TIA!!

Lord Deckard.

"Lord Deckard" wrote in
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Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU

The cores run at almost the same speed, but the Barton 3200 runs a 200FSB,
and should run 200Mhz memory (PC32000) to get maximum perfromance. The
XP2400 runs a 133FSB and runs 133Mhz memory (PC2100). You don't mention
your m/b model and brand or chipset. It may or may not support 200FSB
Bartons. It may or may not support a 200Mhz memory bus speed. If you keep
using the old single channel PC2100 memory, you won't see much of
performance increase. My guess is that your chipset and board are limited to
lower FSB and memory speeds. So the gains would be minimal. If you go to an
Nforce2 dual channel board, 2 sticks of PC3200 ram then there'll be a
substantial increase. But cost is a lot more.

Save your cash ! you wont notice any difference , I over clocked my 2500xp
Barton to 3200 I couldn't see any difference, not to my brain anyway :-)


"Lord Deckard" wrote in
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Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU
or should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU later?
TIA!!

Lord Deckard.

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:44:21 +0000, Lord Deckard wrote:

Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU
or should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU later? TIA!!

Save your cash. The CPU you have now will clock to and beyond the speed of
the 3200+ the right MB. Either way, you won't notice a dramamtic
difference. Your next upgrade should be to A 64.

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.htm

Yip, Wes is right.
You won't notice a lotta diffo.
If you're a gamer, a VGA upgrade would net you more.
I'd save your money for a nice little NF4 SL-i, 2 x PCIe setup.

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:44:21 +0000, Lord Deckard wrote:

Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so
how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU
or should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU later? TIA!!

Save your cash. The CPU you have now will clock to and beyond the speed of
the 3200+ the right MB. Either way, you won't notice a dramamtic
difference. Your next upgrade should be to A 64.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.htm

Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton core.
As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same clock, so
how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional cache
and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the new CPU
or should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU later? TIA!!

Save your cash. The CPU you have now will clock to and beyond the speed of
the 3200+ the right MB. Either way, you won't notice a dramamtic
difference. Your next upgrade should be to A 64.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.htm

I'm using an Asus A7N8X-X at the moment. Whats the best way to go about
overclocking with this board? Do I need to unlock the multiplier on the CPU
or is there an easier way to go about it?
TIA, again!

Lord Deckard.

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:30:27 +0000, Lord Deckard wrote:


Currently running an XP2400 and my board can support a 3200 barton
core. As far as I can tell, the chips run at near enough the same
clock, so how
much real world improvement am I likely to see? Does the additional
cache and faster FSB make enough difference to warrant dropping in the
new CPU or should I save my cash and upgrade to a new board and CPU
later? TIA!!

Save your cash. The CPU you have now will clock to and beyond the speed
of the 3200+ the right MB. Either way, you won't notice a dramamtic
difference. Your next upgrade should be to A 64.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.htm

I'm using an Asus A7N8X-X at the moment. Whats the best way to go about
overclocking with this board? Do I need to unlock the multiplier on the
CPU or is there an easier way to go about it? TIA, again!

Make sure the PCI lock is on (may be default, I don't know). Then just
start raisning the FSB. Unless you also raise vcore, it'll probably max
out around 145 (2175MHz) so I'd start by raising vcore to 1.75v and
setting the FSB to 150Mhz for 2250MHz cpu speed. I assume you at least
PC2700 ram. If you only have PC2100, you may have to change the ram to FSB
ratio. At 1.85v it may go as high as 2400MHz or more, and it may go that
high with only 1.75v. Each cpu is different. Raising core to 175v should
not affect the life of the cpu as long as you have good cooling. IMO,
1.85v will with some cpu's, so remeber there's always a price to pay for
max performance. With that in mind I'd limit vcore to 1.80v or less and be
satisfied with the stable speed you can get with that voltage. As always,
when overclocking, boot with a seperate boot disk to test befor booting
from the normal HD. A memtest boot disk would be best IMO.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.htm