Performance Increase Upgrading from a P2-450 to either duron or TBird OC'ed 800mhz+?

[Crovakiet]

Hi,

I am considering upgrading from my current setup P2-450 with Geforce 2 GTS vid card to either a duron or tbird setup@ 800+ mhz(since most sites and people claim that durons can easily get to that and higher, with an fop38 or Alpha). Will I see a substantial increase in performance from my current setup to the duron @ 800 or tbird @800 setup? I am a gamer by the way and play Quake 3, plus I want to be able to play the new games like Sacrifice, TF2, Tribes2 and Alice(the McGee version you know "twisted&quot with most if not all graphic options on, at pretty high fps. Also, which speed duron/tbird should I get for optimal O/C results? Also, I see that the FOP38 beats an ALPHA 6035 most of the time when sites review the two coolers, but what I do notice is that they review the ALPHA without the Delta Fan. I was wondering which socket a HSF performs better if both were compared, utilizing a Delta Fan? (not the lower profile fan that comes stock with Alpha 6035)

Thanks in advance.

 

[gplracer]

The alpha is the best. The delta is so loud it might drive you insane. Also you will see a signigicant performance increase. Your current cpu is the bottleneck on your system. On a duron system with regard to games the bottleneck will become you video card.

 

[undercover]

I don't know alot about motherboards but I know I didn't see a huge increase when I went form my PII 450 to my PIII800E. I run a Prophet IIMX and I never go below 100fps in Counter-Strike @ 800x600. I think what hold me back is DMA33 on a crappy A-Corp mobo.

I am always scared to go AMD cause I do alot of web design and graphix work and am scared of compatability probs.

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