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Is it worth it?

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Lord Banshee

Golden Member
What do you guys think?

~600 dollars for all this
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
XFX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice ADA3000BPBOX

to upgrade this
Chaintech VNF3-250
AMd 2800+ (1.8Ghz@2.3Ghz)
ATI 9800 Pro with a 10% overclock on Core and Memory
Had about 1 year now.

If i buy it i plan on overclocking the CPU to 2.6Ghz (if possible)
and 10% overclock on the Video Card isn't far fetched either.

What do you think worth the upgrade....

THis is to hold me over till christmas time to buy AMD AthlonX2.

If i do go with with this plan on using spare parts to upgrade my HTPC with the 2800+ at 1.6Ghz and maybe only 1.2volt

BTW i do the following
Work with CAD enviroments such as AutoCAD, Rhino3D, SolidEdge, Unigraphics
Program with Visual Studio
Work with DCC Applicatoin such as Photoshop and 3DStudioMax
PLay Half-Life 2 and probally soon play BattleField 2.

Any reasoning either way would be great... i need a push one way or the other.
 
Although the motherboard and video card will cross with the upgrade to the X2, you'll be wasting money on the CPU. I say just keep everything you have now and upgrade everything come six months from now. Who knows, prices might go down, especially on that 7800 series.
 
No, it's not worth it. If you're just going to upgrade the CPU around Christmas anyways, then just upgrade your video card.
 
Well Ull be wasting the money on the CPU but U will se a small differance in CPU power. ALl the other things will carry over. I guess my answer would be yes its worth it. Just make sure U get 2*1Gb sticks to go with that and to read up @ dfi-street.com..
 
Just wait until christmas to upgrade... Your current system really isn't holding you back too much and it seems silly to spend $150 on a CPU (with is not much faster than what you already have) that you will only keep for 6 months...
 
there are reports of x2's coming out in august at 350, the 6800gt beats the crap out of a 9800 with one hand tied behind its back though
 
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