3200+ vs 2500+

[Goosemaster]

Question: AS it turn out it was my cd burner (don;t ask) that was making my system unstable in the past. When I had overclocked, I assumed that it was the system that was uncapavle so I never got to appreciate the difference.


With updates and such, what would be the forseeavble difference in Half-life 2 when having my system runnign normally vs using it @ 3200+


My system:

Shuttle 41gv2
Barton 2500+
1GB DDR kingston value ram 400mhz pc3200
ATI radeon 9800pro at stock speeds....
wd120GB
Dell 2001fp

HF @ 1600x1200 with trilinear or at 1280x1024 with 2aa/aaf

16x120 gives about 40fps with 2aa/2af but action brings the number down to the unbearable

12x10 gives about 50 iirc, and it stays pretty decent. Som battle might stutter, but other than that, it is fine


So how much of an improvement would overclocking provide now?

Thanks:thumbsup:

 

[Goosemaster]

anyone?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Quite a big step. 400MHz FSB is significantly more than 333MHz which the 2500+ runs at (I believe). If it were 333MHz, your RAM would be slower as well. Definitely push it all the way to 3200+ if not just for the major speed increase between your CPU, RAM, and mobo.

 

[Goosemaster]

Ok then...I'll try it and psot numbers then....