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Due to a store credit situation, I have some money I *have* to spend at a local shop. I hate problems like this. ;-)

Of the two options below, I'm interested in your opinion(s) of which would offer the biggest performance gains:

1) go from a 2.8c Intel P4 to a 3.0c, or
2) add another gig of memory, for 2 gigs total

Current system is an Intel Mobo, 2.8c Intel CPU, 1 gig of Corsair 400 Mhz memory running 800 FSB with 2 Seagate SATA 120 giggers in RAID 0.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Bill
 
What would you do w/ another CPU? That would give you like, ZERO performance gain. Unless you have some kinda crazy dual P4 mobo I don't know about. You won't really see a gain w/ 2gb of ram either...

Get a new video card... or speakers, or a monitor. Both of your options suck.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
What would you do w/ another CPU? That would give you like, ZERO performance gain. Unless you have some kinda crazy dual P4 mobo I don't know about. You won't really see a gain w/ 2gb of ram either...

Get a new video card... or speakers, or a monitor. Both of your options suck.
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Agreed.
 
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (ATI Radeon, 64 Meg DDR Memory)
Sound Card: Turtle Beach
Monitor: Monitor: KTX 17" CRT

Ditch that 9000 PRO for a 9800 PRO or 9800XT.
Consider replacing the TB with a Audigy2 ZS.
Get a nice 19" LCD or 21" CRT.
 
What do you use your system for? I'm guessing with 1GB RAM a P4 2.8c and a Radeon 9000Pro it's not gaming.

Vid editing/photowork or something? In which case RAM might be useful for photo work, CPU for vid processing, and you could sell the old CPU on Ebay/FST/FT or something.
 
Rest of system:

Intel D875PBZ Mobo
2 Seagate Barracuda 5's, serial ATA, RAID 0
1 Seagate 120 gig IDE (pic/MP3 storage)
1 gig Corsair memory, 466 MHz
Radeon 9000 Pro, 64 meg
Plextor CDRW 16-32-40 (I think)
Pioneer A05 DVD-RW
PC Power & Cooling 510 watt PSU
Lian Li PC-75 case, 6 fans
Zalman CPU heat sink (forgot model)

Thanks!
Bill
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
What do you use your system for? I'm guessing with 1GB RAM a P4 2.8c and a Radeon 9000Pro it's not gaming. Vid editing/photowork or something? In which case RAM might be useful for photo work, CPU for vid processing, and you could sell the old CPU on Ebay/FST/FT or something.
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Correct -- no gaming. Internet, photo processing, CD/DVD compiling and editing, some database work. The current video card seems adequate for what I'm doing, although a better one is a very viable alternative.

Thanks!
Bill
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Photo processing? Better monitor! Get an Apple Cinema Display!
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Hahahaha!!! I have a store credit -- I didn't say I *owned* the store. 🙂 But that *is* a pretty nice looking monitor, if only my wife wouldn't shoot me the minute I walked in the door with it.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Photo processing? Better monitor! Get an Apple Cinema Display!
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Hahahaha!!! I have a store credit -- I didn't say I *owned* the store. 🙂 But that *is* a pretty nice looking monitor, if only my wife wouldn't shoot me the minute I walked in the door with it.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Photo processing? Better monitor! Get an Apple Cinema Display!
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Hahahaha!!! I have a store credit -- I didn't say I *owned* the store. 🙂 But that *is* a pretty nice looking monitor, if only my wife wouldn't shoot me the minute I walked in the door with it.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Photo processing? Better monitor! Get an Apple Cinema Display!
Click to expand...

Hahahaha!!! I have a store credit -- I didn't say I *owned* the store. 🙂 But that *is* a pretty nice looking monitor, if only my wife wouldn't shoot me the minute I walked in the door with it.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Photo processing? Better monitor! Get an Apple Cinema Display!
Click to expand...

Hahahaha!!! I have a store credit -- I didn't say I *owned* the store. 🙂 But that *is* a pretty nice looking monitor, if only my wife wouldn't shoot me the minute I walked in the door with it.
 
more memory might help given what you do, but i would wait for advice from people who actually do photo work.
 
OOOPs...so sorry for the quintuple posts! Kept getting a "page not found" on IE. Maybe I need typing lessons instead of hardware. 🙂
 
Both the options in the original post sound like a huge waste of cash...


Buy two nice SATA drives for RAID-0 or a video card, monitor, anything else.
 
I do photo work, both with digital photos for the web, and scanned photos and other documents for printing. Whether 2GB of RAM would help you or not depends on whether you like to work on multiple full-page 16 bits/channel CMYK images with tons of layers at 600dpi (it would help especially if you multitask with other things at the same time) or standard 8 bits / channel RGB images with a few layers at 72dpi (spend the money on something else).
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
I do photo work, both with digital photos for the web, and scanned photos and other documents for printing. Whether 2GB of RAM would help you or not depends on whether you like to work on multiple full-page 16 bits/channel CMYK images with tons of layers at 600dpi (it would help especially if you multitask with other things at the same time) or standard 8 bits / channel RGB images with a few layers at 72dpi (spend the money on something else).
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Yeah, what kind of photo work? Print stuff or just digicam pics/web stuff/etc?
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Yeah, what kind of photo work? Print stuff or just digicam pics/web stuff/etc?
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Nothing real involved...just downloading, editing and printing stuff taken with an Olympus C-5050 or the wife's Toshiba. Don't do any web work or professional-level items.
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