How much increase in preformance can I expect?

[Sanius]

I need to know this because I am thinking about buying a socket 939 motherboard, another 512 mb of ram to get a gig, and upgrading from my Socket A 2500+ to a Socket 939 3000+

The main reason I want to do this? For bragging rights, oh, and so my geforce 6800 vanilla won't be bottlenecked by my slow CPU. See, I get horrible framerate on HL2. It loves to dip below 30 on medium settings, 1024x768, and no AA/AF. Quake 4 is worse..On most levels it takes 50 seconds to 2 minutes to load the level, and the framerate is just terrible.

So if I upgrade my CPU and ram to what I mentioned above, how much increase in preformance can I expect?

 

[Malak]

You get bragging rights for catching up with people stuck in 2003?

You'll get a big increase in performance from the RAM alone, but the combination of upgrades will bring your performance up quite a bit.

 

[Sanius]

Originally posted by: Malak
You get bragging rights for catching up with people stuck in 2003?

Well, I was mainly kidding about that.

 

[CalamitySymphony]

Your only real bottleneck is your RAM. Your Paging, for christ's sake. Its not an "upgrade", as actually having enough memory, vs NOT.
The CPU won't add much, if add all.

 

[Sanius]

Are you sure about that? When I buy these parts, I want to be 100% sure it's the RAM causing the problem. If so, thats good to hear.

 

[Sanius]

Alright, I asked around a bit more at other places and I guess it's true. Now I can use that $210 from the CPU and motherboard for something else. Thanks guys.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Your only real bottleneck is your RAM. Your Paging, for christ's sake. Its not an "upgrade", as actually having enough memory, vs NOT.
The CPU won't add much, if add all.

20% upgrade is quite a bit, it'll help performance. 512mb of RAM is enough. While more and more gamers are upgrading to 1GB, and some games can use up to 2GB or more, 512 is still enough. A 100% upgrade to memory is good no matter how much you have.

 

[CalamitySymphony]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Your only real bottleneck is your RAM. Your Paging, for christ's sake. Its not an "upgrade", as actually having enough memory, vs NOT.
The CPU won't add much, if add all.

20% upgrade is quite a bit, it'll help performance. 512mb of RAM is enough. While more and more gamers are upgrading to 1GB, and some games can use up to 2GB or more, 512 is still enough. A 100% upgrade to memory is good no matter how much you have.

Well, this thread should have immediately convinced of the contrary. HL2 immediately uses about 600mb RAM (or more depending). Doom3 also uses more than 512 depending on resolution and settings.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

You might want to look into this hot deal:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1723009

Oh, and 512mb Ram is NOT enough for any of the new games.

 

[tyborg]

well, if you go for a s939 CPU, the RAM you mentioned will offer a significant mem performance increase, spicifically cuz of the s939's onboard mem controller. It makes for a much more efficient use of the Dual Channel spec.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Some actual benchmarking of AXP vs A64.

Check out the performance jump in gaming from an AXP 3200+ to an A64 3000+
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2249&p=9

Since you're coming from an AXP 2500+, the jump will be greater.