Prescott E vs. Northwood C... in 2012.

[Red Hawk]

Prescott uses a different socket than Conroe (478, IIRC), so I would think not.

 

[pantsaregood]

There are Prescott models on both socket 478 and 775. The board in question is socket 478

 

[Denithor]

No, AGP wouldn't prevent Flash acceleration, it's just getting your hands on a more up to date AGP card would be a problem. The FX 5200 is too old to support Flash Player acceleration, I would guess. The last graphics cards to be made with AGP support were the Radeon HD 4000 series, and buying them in AGP is relatively expensive for the performance you get.

Very, very true.

For the price of an AGP GPU that would actually help your situation, you'd spend nearly as much as just buying an AMD APU + mobo + RAM and completely upgrading the whole thing.

Which is my recommendation.

 

[sm625]

Nothing you do is going to give you a good adobe flash experience on a socket 478. The performance was good 2 years ago but adobe has really bloated the heck out of flash. It can make a 2.7GHz athlon 64 core choke.

I would go with the northwood, if you truly have a 3.4GHz stock clocked northwood that is something special.

Your best bet might be this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814139053

But for that kind of money you can almost buy a core 2 system off ebay...

 

[pantsaregood]

I don't get it. 3.4 GHz Northwoods aren't even uncommon. Why is it something special?