Can help me?

[woopypooky]

I want to ask the difference in performance between the 2 system below:-

Socket A AMD 2600 Athlon XP with geforce 6600GT AGP ,DDR333
Socket 939 AMD64 3000+ with 6600GT pci-e, DCDDR400

any significance improvement in gaming?

As i own a socket A mobo right now, i wonder if it is better to buy the 6600GT AGP now and buy M2 later OR upgrade to S939 now? If i upgrade now, i cant buy anything better than 6600GT and 3000+.

What is ur opinion?

 

[BigCoolJesus]

im the upgrade type of man because you can never depend on waiting out for the next best technology


plus theres still lots and lots of room to step up from a 3000 on s939, so i say upgrade

 

[woopypooky]

well, what u say is quite true, but then its not merely just upgrades, i gotta change mobo, psu,cpu, gpu and buy SATA disk and DDR400 as well bcos my current DDR ram is just 333. So if i waited for M2 its still the same,gotta change almost everytihng too.

I guess i was a bit too fussy. But then if those 2 system differences is huge, then i might change to S939, and if its only marginal, then i would be waiting for AM2. And buy a 6600GT AGP to content with for 7-9 months.

u see, the problem i am having right now is without a gpu card having burn my last 9600XT a month ago.

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: woopypooky
well, what u say is quite true, but then its not merely just upgrades, i gotta change mobo, psu,cpu, gpu and buy SATA disk and DDR400 as well bcos my current DDR ram is just 333. So if i waited for M2 its still the same,gotta change almost everytihng too.

I guess i was a bit too fussy. But then if those 2 system differences is huge, then i might change to S939, and if its only marginal, then i would be waiting for AM2. And buy a 6600GT AGP to content with for 7-9 months.

u see, the problem i am having right now is without a gpu card having burn my last 9600XT a month ago.

well did i miss an announcement or something........ is does M2 have a set date?

if your just assuming M2 will be available in the next year, based on predictions, then id tell you your definatly going to be waiting longer then u think.
But if something has actually been said by AMD about M2's release date and specifications, then id say wait if u must

 

[Fern]

any significance improvement in gaming?

Naw. Benchies will show better performance at very low resolutions. But real world will show very little difference in performance in almost all FPS games.

I don't think see much, if any, improvement in gaming if you spend your money on a PCIe rig with a 6600GT and a64 3000.

If you wanna see immediate improvement, get one of the higher end AGP cards, a 6800GT (256MB of vid ram) or a x850XT etc.

You don't say much system ram you have. But bring it up to 1gig for decreased loading times etc.

Fern