How much of a performance increase would I get going from a cel 533a/840 to a 1ghz T-Bird?

[davidos]

I have a Geforce 2 GTS as my vid card. Would my games be more stable? How much of an increase do you think?

 

[BurntKooshie]

in what way is it unstable? Is it unstable even if not overclocked?

Yes, you would get a pretty massive increase in performance.....but is it worth the cost of a new mobo? It also depends on the res you play at. If its at low res, then a T-bird will show massive gains, if high res, then not.

 

[davidos]

By more stable I mean fewer slow downs, etc. Yeah, I'll have to get a new mobo & the chip itself. Probably around $330 total.

 

[zzzz]

since you are going to spend that much money anyway, why not wait for few more weeks to get DDR platforms or the SMP T-birds?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

That t-bird will be alot faster than the celeron.

 

[jsbush]

I upgraded my Celeron 566 @ 850 for a duron 600 @ 1000 and the duron leaves the celeron behind in the dust!

 

[DaddyG]

Davidos,

You should understand the cause of your slowdowns BEFORE upgrading. Maybe its not your CPU. It will take time and experimentation. What is your PCI bus speed ?? Many hard-drives can perform badly at high PCI bus speeds, they don't always just crap out. What your AGP speed ?.
You may not be able to fix your problems on your current rig but you should know the cause.

 

[davidos]

My celeron is running on a 105mhz bus speed so I'm pretty sure the components can take it since they used to be running at 127mhz when I was overclocking my old P3-450. It just feels like I don't have enough gas in my cpu... I'm not sure how to tell what AGP bus speed is on the P3B-F but it's probably within spec so that shouldn't be the problem.

 

[Tetsuo316]

none of your pci components are running at 127mhz or 105mhz. there's a divider for a reason, and you not knowing that is very dangerous for all of your components. on most systems, there's a 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 divider. if your fsb is at 66mhz, it uses the 1/2 divider, if it's on 100mhz it uses the 1/3, and 133mhz uses the 1/4. do the math and you'll see that the pci components all run at 33mhz. when you run at speeds in between 66 and 100 or 100 and 133 or above 133, the components all run faster than they were meant to because they're still using the lower divider.