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Dualies later or upgrade now ( give me some suggestions, please look )

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XBoxLPU

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Currently running a

[*]1.6A OC to 2.24ghz, 1.6500 vcore, 4:6 ratio, 136 fsb, spd memory settings ( any higher and I am unstable )
[*]Asus P4S333 with PS533 Bios
[*]512 Samsung PC2700 ( has samsung chips but not samsung PCB
[*]Gainward GF3, OC to 225/510

My mom is currently running a

[*]P2 233
[*]64 ram
[*]Aopen AX6BC ...

I run Seti on both and of course my mom's pc takes forever to crunch a WU. I am wanting to upgrade her PC.

Right now I have enough to buy an Epox ( KT333 Board ), an XP 2000+ OEM, and 128mb of DDR ram. ( around $330 ). Than I could upgrade my mom's PC to the P4 system I am running now. Use the 512 samsung in the new AMD machine, and the newly bought 128mb in the P4 system.

I could than crunch 12-15WU a day and have a very simliar performance wise, correct ? ( Assuming that I could OC the AMD setup some ) .

OR Should I wait 2-3 months, save up some cash and buy a Dual AMD machine to replace the P4 system I am running now.

Advice would be helpfully.. ( on OC the AMD machine, or the upgrade opitions )

Thanks
 
If you have the patience, go with a dual athlon setup - that would rock - but, of course, if you wouldn't benefit from a dually due to what kind of applications you run, you might as well go with the athlon xp 2000+ now. Of course, it probably won't overclock a lot, so maybe you would want to consider a 2.0ghz P4 - it would have more overclocking headroom, I'd think.
 
I gave you my response in your other thread, but if you do plan to go to dual AMD route, use quality components, registered DIMM and don't plan to OC.
 
If the apps you typically run are SMP optimized then I'd definitely wait a couple months and go with a dually AthlonMP setup, that'd offer fantastic performance in some areas.

If your not going to be heavily using any apps that are specifically optimized for multiprocessing I wouldnt bother thoug, and just go with the AXP 2000+.
You likely wouldnt need to o/c much at all.. maybe 50MHz or so to roughly compare to your present system.

 
I do not run applications for SMP. I just thought about running a dualie for Seti.

but i think i will upgrade to a XP 2000 by the end of the month...

 
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