2.6Ghz to 3.2Ghz?

Winning Hand

Ok, I have upgraded my ram to 1gig, have a 6800GT and am looking for something else to do to my dell. I dont have the money to build a new pc so this would probably be my last mod until i finish college. Currently have a 2.6Ghz pentium 4 processor and am considering upgrading to the 3.2Ghz. Will this have any noticable effect on anything (wanna break 5k on 3dmark2005, at 4800 now) or should i save my money for a LCD monitor?

jesus_thats_gre

Hmmm... Would the money better off spent of a new case, board and PSU and just transfer the rest of your components over... That way you would just OC the 2.6 you have on the new boards..

jesus_thats_gre

A 3.2 P4 is €200 or so yeah?

gline

yeh oc'on it to 3.2 wouldnt be that bad of an idea. is 800mhz bus cpu?? prescott?? (im not sure if there was a 2.6ghz prescott released, 2.8 may have been the slowest, i cant remeber).

jesus_thats_gre

gline wrote:

yeh oc'on it to 3.2 wouldnt be that bad of an idea. is 800mhz bus cpu?? prescott?? (im not sure if there was a 2.6ghz prescott released, 2.8 may have been the slowest, i cant remeber).

2.8 was the slowest Prescott I think

Defo a Socket 478 CPU anyway.

BloodBath

Whether it's northwood or prescott it should go to 3.2ghz easily enough on a decent mobo with a decent heatsink.


BloodBath

jesus_thats_gre

Yeah thats why I suggested it. Could a case, board and psu of decent quality be bought for that money?

unkel

2.6 is Northwood. Buy case/PSU/mobo is a good suggestion, but aren't we forgetting something?

What is the 1 gig ram? It needs to be PC4000, or overclockable to that to get it the Northwood up to 3.2

A cooling solution will also have to be purchased

Anyway, I would advise this route over sticking another CPU into your Dell. And to answer your question, yes it would make a notable difference albeit not that big a difference, but looking forward you're better off building a new rig

Winning Hand

The RAM is PC3200. The reason I dont wanna go the route of a new case, mobo etc right now is that once i graduate next year I wanna build one from scratch using PCI-E graphics cards thus necessitating pretty much new everything all over again! The 2.6 is the northwood but I have confirmed the prescott has no problems in a dell and because it is now priced at just over 200 euro I wondered would there be any benefit to it or save my pennies for my rig next year?

deckie27

to be honest i don't think you would see much of an improvement between 2.6 and 3.2, well not in the real world. Don't get me wrong I love to benchmark my systems but with a dell motherboard as a base you may as well wait and go for gold when you put ur new sys together

Dec

gline

nah i dont agree, i think youd notice a good bit of preformance increase, 600mhz jump is noticeable coming from a 2.6