Is it worth upgrading to Barton?

[Spydc]

I currently have the following system:
P4 1.6a @ 2.13GHz
Epox 4BDA2+ (I845) Motherboard
256MB of Mushkin PC2700 DDR (Adding 512MB of Corsair XMS pc3200 by the end of the week)
Geforce 4 TI4400 @ 300/620 (Upgraded last week from Geforce 2 GTS 32mb)

I've been reading about how extremely cheap the Barton 2500+ / nforce 2 combo is..especially for overclocking to 3200+....Do you think it is worth it to upgrade fron my current setup? or maybe even upgrading my pentium 4...or should i just wait?

 

[Kenny1234]

Your computer should run current games well and your video card would be the bottleneck with future ones. I would wait to upgrade cuz if you go with the barton and overclock your going to need to get new ram which probably won't be worth it IMO.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
Your computer should run current games well and your video card would be the bottleneck with future ones. I would wait to upgrade cuz if you go with the barton and overclock your going to need to get new ram which probably won't be worth it IMO.

YEP

 

[GoHAnSoN]

you should go for amd64 for your next upgrade.

 

[edmundoab]

your rig seems good enough to keep until you decide to go for athlon64 or some P5...

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Spydc
I currently have the following system:
P4 1.6a @ 2.13GHz
Epox 4BDA2+ (I845) Motherboard
256MB of Mushkin PC2700 DDR (Adding 512MB of Corsair XMS pc3200 by the end of the week)
Geforce 4 TI4400 @ 300/620 (Upgraded last week from Geforce 2 GTS 32mb)

I've been reading about how extremely cheap the Barton 2500+ / nforce 2 combo is..especially for overclocking to 3200+....Do you think it is worth it to upgrade fron my current setup? or maybe even upgrading my pentium 4...or should i just wait?

You could use the Corsair you are getting for ocing with the nforce2 combo just fine, and if you got to 3200+ speeds, well, you would see a pretty good increase in performance IMO.

 

[Cogman]

Bah, Wait for the P8's . The point is, if you ask about upgrading people will always tell you to wait for the next best thing. Though 64 Technology would be worth the wait, sometimes the otherthings arnt.

 

[Jeff7181]

I'd just step up to a better P4... maybe the best that motherboard can handle... or the best 400 Mhz bus processor out there, since they should be cheap cause they're twice outdated by new technology (533 and 800 Mhz bus)

 

[MaDDaWg1018]

its all about how much money you have to work with. the athlon 64's are gonna cost you a pretty penny when they come out, and you're probably going to have to wait a while until the prices for those go down.

besides, there arent enough applications out there that will really utilize 64 bits for a while anyway.

but from looking at your system, thats nothing to complain about. its pretty nice, so i'd say wait a while.

 

[FPSguy]

You are talking about $180 for an XP 2500+ and an NForce2 Ultra motherboard (if you buy them both new), plus $40 or so for a good heatsink, fan, and thermal paste, plus whatever time it takes you to order the parts, install them, and get everything working/overclocked. If it's worth $220 or so for your computer to run faster, upgrade. If not, wait. Like others have said, it looks like your system will run most applications/games just fine. You are a generation or two back on processor speed, but unless you "need" a faster processor or want it $220 worth, there isn't really any reason to upgrade at this point.