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lesch2k

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i am updating my machine and i need new CPU, mother board and RAM.

purposes are general usage, some engineering simulations, i dont play many games. i would like to rip my collectoin of 75 CD's to MP3

right now i am leaning towards the Intel Pentium 4 / 2.4GHz 512k socket 478 Hyper Threading Technology 800 MHz FSB - $175 at new egg

What difference does going from 533MHz Bus to 800Mhz bus make, and what implications will this have on the RAM and mother board that i get. is it better to get a 2.6 GHz@533 Bus or a 2.4GHz@800 Bus

moreover what type of ram and hard drive should i look to purchase to best utilize this processor.

What is the noticeable speed difference between DDR2100 2400 or 2700 - what would i want for this type of system

I currently havea 52x burner, DVD drive, digital 5.1 sound card, geforce2Ti, and a 30GB and 60GB 7200RPM hard drive. will that hard drive be too slow, should i get a faster control card, i think it is one speed slower that ata100 but not entirely sure.

thanks
 
The 2.4/2.6/2.8 processors @800 all have Hyperthreading, while the 3.06 is the only 533 FSB processor with Hyperthreading. I have not seen any benchmarks comparing these new chips to their 533 FSB counterparts, but they will be faster comparing same speed. Not sure if the 2.4C will out-do a 2.6 or not, but it has a shot with the extra RAM bandwidth + hyperthreading.

For motherboard, you need either the 875 or 865 chipset motherboards, since they are the ones that support the 800 FSB. A big plus here is dual-channel DDR, which will give you another speed boost.

For RAM, you need PC3200 because you will want to run your memory at DDR400 to match the processor.

As for the hard drives, moving to a 865 or 875 motherboard means you will almost certainly have access to Serial-ATA, so if you are looking to upgrade drives, go SATA. WD has a 10k RPM SATA drive that is 36GB in capacity, which would probably be the fastest you could go there. If the hard drives are still ATA66, then they will be a bit of a bottleneck, but it depends on what you do with the machine as to what the total impact would be.
 
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