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P43.0E VS P3.4EE

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Mir96TA

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Beside 400Mhz more clock speed and Lower Thermal Requirment for Extreme . Is there any other Adavantages ?
I own a P4 3.0 Prescott is worth it to upgrade to P4 Extreme ?
Rest of the System is
P875 Chipset
Dual DDR 1Gig Ram
Sata 200Gig HDD
ATi 9800 AIW.
OS XP Sp2
Typical usage Browse Da internet Forums
D/L Divx/Xvid Movies from Torrents (mostly Porn)
Rip Coping DvD
Web Meetings.....
 
it's worth taking the time to swap the chips, but I wouldn't spend much money on the upgrade. You'll save a little encoding time, but for general purpose stuff, you won't notice.

In fact most of us would be hard-pressed to notice 10-15% extra clockspeed without a benchmark, and the extra cache would mostly help in encoding, file compression, and that sort of thing. It won't make your porn go faster.
 
I wouldn't bother, the system is old enough that it's not worth spending that much money on. Browsing the web is deffinatly not CPU intensive, downloading torents is limited by your ISP, ripping DVD's might get 10-15s faster, web meeting are again not CPU intensive, so I wouldn't bother to waste the money on outdated tech.
 
Originally posted by: Mir96TA
So it is waste of money to spend $132.00
From Prescott 3.0 to P4EE 3.4 (3.4GHz 800MHz 2MB S478 CPU)
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There's no way I'd put that much into a CPU upgrade for that system when you can pick up a used Athlon X2 and motherboard for that much or a little more.
 
Originally posted by: MDE
Originally posted by: Mir96TA
So it is waste of money to spend $132.00
From Prescott 3.0 to P4EE 3.4 (3.4GHz 800MHz 2MB S478 CPU)
Click to expand...
There's no way I'd put that much into a CPU upgrade for that system when you can pick up a used Athlon X2 and motherboard for that much or a little more.
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PLEASE tell me where you can get an X2 with a (good?) motherboard for ~$130.

Anyway, yeah, $132 is information superhighway robbery for that chip, and the upgrade is definitely not worth it. You can easily get a single core A64 (3500 or higher even) and a motherboard for it for less than $100, that will still use your DDR RAM, and if you go 754 you could reuse your AGP video card, assuming gaming isn't an issue, but if it is you can find 939 setups with PCI-e slots for a lot cheaper than that too. If you were to go the 754 route you'd get a (probably) better processor than that 3.4GHz P4 and you could just reuse everything in the new motherboard.


Here's a deal on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103035

A64 3200 Venice, 754, with an NF3 board with an AGP slot. Unless you do a lot of rendering and the like, this is definitely a better buy. Some people say the board doesn't OC well, but more seem to say it does (in the newegg reviews); if you're up for that, it's an awesome thing because a 3200 Venice should overclock very nicely.
 
Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
Originally posted by: MDE
Originally posted by: Mir96TA
So it is waste of money to spend $132.00
From Prescott 3.0 to P4EE 3.4 (3.4GHz 800MHz 2MB S478 CPU)
Click to expand...
There's no way I'd put that much into a CPU upgrade for that system when you can pick up a used Athlon X2 and motherboard for that much or a little more.
Click to expand...

PLEASE tell me where you can get an X2 with a (good?) motherboard for ~$130.

Anyway, yeah, $132 is information superhighway robbery for that chip, and the upgrade is definitely not worth it. You can easily get a single core A64 (3500 or higher even) and a motherboard for it for less than $100, that will still use your DDR RAM, and if you go 754 you could reuse your AGP video card, assuming gaming isn't an issue, but if it is you can find 939 setups with PCI-e slots for a lot cheaper than that too. If you were to go the 754 route you'd get a (probably) better processor than that 3.4GHz P4 and you could just reuse everything in the new motherboard.


Here's a deal on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103035

A64 3200 Venice, 754, with an NF3 board with an AGP slot. Unless you do a lot of rendering and the like, this is definitely a better buy. Some people say the board doesn't OC well, but more seem to say it does (in the newegg reviews); if you're up for that, it's an awesome thing because a 3200 Venice should overclock very nicely.
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That is going $200 Mark.
I was talking $132 Shipped to me.
Simple Chip swap. I do not have change MB or Reinstall Driver /Windows.
I just dont know How fast is EE over Prescott

 
You do the math. It's probably a little over 10% faster, because the clock speed is a little over 10% more...

Save the money and upgrade to a C2D or X2 later.
 
Originally posted by: Mir96TA
Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
Originally posted by: MDE
Originally posted by: Mir96TA
So it is waste of money to spend $132.00
From Prescott 3.0 to P4EE 3.4 (3.4GHz 800MHz 2MB S478 CPU)
Click to expand...
There's no way I'd put that much into a CPU upgrade for that system when you can pick up a used Athlon X2 and motherboard for that much or a little more.
Click to expand...

PLEASE tell me where you can get an X2 with a (good?) motherboard for ~$130.

Anyway, yeah, $132 is information superhighway robbery for that chip, and the upgrade is definitely not worth it. You can easily get a single core A64 (3500 or higher even) and a motherboard for it for less than $100, that will still use your DDR RAM, and if you go 754 you could reuse your AGP video card, assuming gaming isn't an issue, but if it is you can find 939 setups with PCI-e slots for a lot cheaper than that too. If you were to go the 754 route you'd get a (probably) better processor than that 3.4GHz P4 and you could just reuse everything in the new motherboard.


Here's a deal on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103035

A64 3200 Venice, 754, with an NF3 board with an AGP slot. Unless you do a lot of rendering and the like, this is definitely a better buy. Some people say the board doesn't OC well, but more seem to say it does (in the newegg reviews); if you're up for that, it's an awesome thing because a 3200 Venice should overclock very nicely.
Click to expand...
That is going $200 Mark.
I was talking $132 Shipped to me.
Simple Chip swap. I do not have change MB or Reinstall Driver /Windows.
I just dont know How fast is EE over Prescott
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What are you talking about? Scroll down under combo deals, you can get that chip and a biostar nf3 board for $80 plus shipping.
 
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