need a better motherboard...I believe

[fathersound]

I have a P4VMM3 mainboard which includes a socket 423 that supports up to a 400MHz bus and accomodates P4's. I am currently using a celeron 1.7GHz processor.

My problem is that I am doing music production and when I open up two programs so they can work together my unit starts to move slow. At first I thought it was a latency problem but then Iwas told that I may need a faster processor.
I need to either upgrade either my processor (preferrably) or get a whole new m-board. I have been doing a lil bit of research on my board but from what I have been seeing it does not look like can do much upgrading.

does anyone have any suggestions?
thx for your time

 

[egale]

Replacing mobo, processor and memory is probably the best solution but you may see a big improvement if you increase you system memory to 512mb if you have already not done so.

 

[brentkiosk]

My experience with two sub 1GHz Celeron systems (on I still use sometines) is that more memory helped, but too many things open just caused them to choke. A processor upgrade might very well help, but get more memory at the same time.

 

[CraigRT]

you are right fathersound, you will need to do a motherboard upgrade @ the same time.

the socket 423 is the older style P4 (initial release of the P4 line) and there really isn't ANY support for them anymore. I'd recommend upgrading to a socket 478 board and get a P4C of some sort (C stands for 800 FSB)

if you can handle spending that much, you wont be disappointed.

not sure what else you can do, the 423 is old by now. you CAN try upgrading the memory or things like that, but I don't know how much that will help with the little Celeron in there (they really are not very powerful)

 

[Peter]

That thing has a shared-memory graphics unit ... which screws up memory bandwidth. And if it happens to run on SDR RAM to add insult to injury, you got a serious bottleneck there.