How much more?

[cnjmorris]

I currently have an AMD XP 1600 with I believe an abit KG7 motherboard. I have 1gb of ram but it is Kingston 133mhz.

How much speed increase should I expect from the following items?

ASUS "K8N-E Deluxe" NVIDIA nForce3 Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 754 CPU -RETAIL
AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1MB L2 Cache, 64-bit Processor - Retail
Geil Ultra Series Value Dual Channel 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 w/ Blue Heatspreader - Retail


I'm not looking for exact numbers, I know it depends on whether I would be gaming, programming, or multitasking. In general, however, is it an upgrade that would offer a serious increase, or should I wait a bit longer before taking the jump when I tend to upgrade every 2 years or so.

 

[xSnowblindx]

Yeah that'd be quite a deicent increase in power. However, i'd wait for the nForce4 chipset to come out and pick up one of those, those are going to be amazing.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

If you already have an AGP card go with Nforce 3 as Nforce 4 will be PCI-E only. But if you want PCI-E get the Nforce 4 as it is the only AMD board right now that supports PCI-E. I would get the Nforce 3 as PCI-E has almost no performance gain over AGP. And going with that setup will be a lot faster than what you have

 

[Lonyo]

You would be looking at probably double toe gaming performance if you also got a decent graphics card to go with it (something like a 6800nu, or even a 6800GT/X800Pro)
An X700XT/6600GT might be OK, but would not necessarily be as good in the future, but I can play CS: Source on my 9800/2500+ @ 2200/768MB RAM with no problems.
It would be a noticeable increase in speed I would say, for everything.

 

[Rike]

Originally posted by: Computer MAn
But if you want PCI-E get the Nforce 4 as it is the only AMD board right now that supports PCI-E.

Not the only, ATI and VIA also have A64 PCIe coming to market in the next month.