help with CPU upgrade

[rhx852]

I have a Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with a AMD 2400 Thorton core
My mb can take up to 2600+ 266FSB
is it worth doing the upgrad
I can use the 2400 to upgrade an 1800+

it has 512 memory would a memory upgrade make a difference

Thanks

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: rhx852
I have a Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with a AMD 2400 Thorton core
My mb can take up to 2600+ 266FSB
is it worth doing the upgrad
I can use the 2400 to upgrade an 1800+

it has 512 memory would a memory upgrade make a difference

Thanks

To go from a 2400+ to 2600+? Nah, I don't think you'd notice a difference.

I don't think another 512MB of ram w/b much help either.

Oh, and Welcome to the Forum!

Fern

 

[Zero Plasma]

bumpy

 

[Pollock]

You'd be better off jumping up to a S754 Sempron or Athlon 64, but the price of a new S754 motherboard makes that less appealing.

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

naw.. you wouldn't really notice the upgrade by 200 mhz.. why not overclock it a bit to 2600 and check out the differnce..
you will notice the extra ram if you use winXP and multitask often

 

[LED]

As suggested...don't bother

 

[PumpActionWalrus]

Taht board actually supports 333mhz bus cpus man, you can get a mobile chip, clock it to what you want

 

[magratton]

I would like to detract with the other posters on one issue: Yes the memory upgrade will make a difference, especially if you are gaming. Going from 512MB to 768 or 1GB does make a visible difference.

Is gaming what you are doing with this system? Also what kind of video do you have? I would not just dump the mobo/core like other recommended. This system still has life in it, and you can always transfer a next gen video card and you memory to a newer system if you want to do that lower upgrade process. With AMD's chip integrated memory controller, people are finding using even older PC2100 RAM on a new Athlon 64 still results in tremendous performance increase. So keep your system for now, upgrade RAM/Video etc. and then transfer parts to old computer when you make the move to A64.

 

[fuzzynavel]

I'm still running on an Athlon 1800XP+ with crappy 266MHz bus and PC2100 RAM.....starting to show its age a bit now.....but can't upgrade probably for about another year yet! only got 4x AGP and my 5950 can't even stretch its legs with that!

The moral of the story is that unless you want to play the latest games at high res then your current setup is basically fine...just get a decent graphics card and some more RAM