P2 350 to Celeron 667

[Stylewar]

I am an avid Q2 player, currently run a P2 350 with 196 MB of SDRAM Cas2. Unfortunately, my ISP only connects at 28.8 due to crowdedness, and lag can be a bit of a problem ( no broadband avail here ). I have just recently upgraded from the first gen Viper 550 16 MB vid card to an ATI Radeon 64 DDR card. The difference was immense, I can grapple quicker, and ping dropped by 50+. I wish to now flash my Abit BH-6 to the latest bios to accept up to Celeron 700, upgrading from P2 350. My question is this, do you guys think that the processor upgrade will help out my lag a bit more? I remember when the 400 PPGA celerons first came out, they outperformed my P2 350 by a decent amount. I would suppose that the Celeron 700 would really rock compared then huh? I mean, for only a 90$ investment, should be worth it right?

Also, I see people referring to upgrading to DDR RAM. Do you guys mean the actual system RAM? Or is it something else? If I upgrade my processor, would I then benefit by also getting a new MB that will accept this RAM in the future? Or stick with my Abit BH-6 for now?

Thanx in advance for any advice.

 

[Rent]

I honestly don't know how getting a faster card helps you out... if I don't limit my framerate in Counterstrike I lag out completely on my 56k(wait, I do that anyways... >=(

You'll see more FPS, but I don't think it will lower your latency.

About the DDR memory, yes, its system memory. Gooooood stuff.. now if we could get some motherboards! I'd stick with the BH6 for now, those things are like a trusty pet.

 

[bozack]

I am almost in the same boat as you.

I have a celeron 300a running at 450 along with a radeon 32 meg ddr card and I am trying to decide whether or not to either get a 600 mhz celeron and slocket for my bh6 or get a kt7 and a duron 700

the pros for the celeron and bh6 are money, money, and money

the pros for the duron are that not only does it support the agp 2x protocol which is recommened for the radeon ddr, but it is also faster and there are less incompatibilities(or at least that is what I think), oh well let me know where you go..good luck deciding

 

[bozack]

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[Pennstate]

What modem do you have?