Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Or you could sell someone the 645 motherboard + 2100 ram + 1.6A for 100 - 200 bucks and then instead of IS7 get an athlon 64 mobo by VIA or SIS 755 for $100 and 3200 Ram and use those 100 - 200 bucks you'll get and get yourself a new athlon 64 3000+
even if you get a new IS7 and new ram there is no guarantee you will overclock 1.6A past 2.6 ghz or higher. On top of the fact that it doesnt have HyperThreading you can decrease performance to equivalent of 2.4C.
so soon you'll want to upgrade again... but with Athlon 3000+ you get P4 3.2 perfomance in games or higher right away and general performance higher than athlon 3200+ xp and majority of p4 3.2 as well.
In your case even if you sell the 1.6 + mobo + ram for a measly $100 (i am sure you can do better) you'll just need to add $120 (and that new mobo and ram you wanted to buy anyways) but the system will be wayyyyyyyyyyyy faster and upgradable in the future
I think your post went a little south.....
Let me correct some stuff....
1) Your assumptions of 3000+ equalling p4 3.2ghz is pretty much in gaming only and in other areas the muscle of the p4 shines in encoding, etc....I think you are being very vague.....3000+ cannot equal a p4 in a majority of apps if you get beyond 6 game test in a review od 12-14 tests overall....3000+ has no answer from the performance of HT....
2) My 1.6a hit 2.74ghz with 1.71v actual and temps were quite reasonable 52c loaded....It can be done and if you tell us the packing date I can give you a better idea of what those chips were averaging...early 1.6a's right of the gate were hitting 133fsb or 2.13ghz very consistently....Later 1.6a's were getting to 2.4ghz a bit more regularly and right before they phased them out they were making 2.8ghz p4's and thus some 1.6a's were lucky to get to 2.6-2.7ghz range....
3)Sis 755 mobos from early results (IE like the ECS) appear to be real stinkers when it comes to ocing...
4) He doesn't need a 3.2ghz chip to beat a 3000+ he can save loads of cash by getting a 2.4, 2.6 or 2.8c chip and have a good cahnce of 3.2ghz and maybe a shot at a bunch more...I hit 3.5ghz with my 2.4ghz which gives me a whopping 1168fsb....My 2.4@3.2 performed better then my 2.6@3.2 so I would say if there was a stock p4 3.5 or even just the new 3.4 oc'd to 3.5ghz I would have the edge and be more situated to that of a 3.6ghz p4 stock....
5) Lets not forget that even to this day most p4c reviews (please go reread them) rarely use HT enabled apps (besides the extremely bashed tomshardware) and therefore when we really start comparing these systems beyond gaming apps how much faster is it really...How much faster does the p4 get when it does more (multitasking)...Who knows I will probably have to buy one for us to find out since no one wants to seem to look at it....
