Pentium 4 630 CPU Upgrade Help Needed

[desertraider001]

Can anyone tell me some cpu's that are better then mine that can work in this motherboard: http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d915gag/index.htm . This works fine but I was just wondering if I should upgrade, if I need a upgrade.

P.S. You can't overclock cpu's in intel motherboards right? Because when I go into the bios, all the settings are locked.

I posted this here because the cpu forums seemed very dead.

 

[secretanchitman]

can you only upgrade your cpu? or do you want to do a whole system upgrade...?

i wouldnt bother upgrading that cpu if i were you. i would get some quality DDR2 ram and a overclocking mobo and just OC that p4. i think they get up to 3.6Ghz...and ive seen 4Ghz using high-end air cooling and memory dividers.

 

[desertraider001]

I dont really wana upgrade my mobo to ddr2 because i got 1gig of ram already
and a x700pro overclocked to 486/555 and sata hdd.

 

[desertraider001]

Any other advice?

 

[Dahak]

if you are already running the 630 on that board, no real use upgrading as cost/performace ratio is not that great for the later chips. pretty much save the money until you can afford a move to pci express platform either a64 or wait till later and see how intels new core (conroe) chips work later this year

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Yeah, the 630 should be able to hold its own right now. If you game, you might want to get a new graphics card though.

 

[Luckyboy1]

It says your mommaboard will support up to a 3.46 GHz 775 socket Pentium IV. While the CPU's with 1 MB of cache are beneficial, the extra money wanted for the 2 MB cached chips simply does not make the "worth it" factor.

Go into the bios and see if it will allow you to overclock the front side buss.