Should i do this?

[imported_Intelfanboy]

i have a 3.2EE and was thinking bout selling it. should i sell it and get a 3.6GHz lga775 cpu, and some nice ram. see the thing is, im broke right now to buy some ram. and i have crappy pc2700. but i was gunna OC that 3.6GHz to 4GHz. proboly wont notice much performance diff in games.

what do u guys think. oh and if u have any AMD chips u wanna reccomend go ahead. i know i know im a intel fanboy, but just list them anyway.

 

[LTC8K6]

If you can sell the 3.2EE and get a 3.6LGA775, new ram, and a new mobo to put it in, and still come out ahead, then I guess it might make a little bit of sense.

To me, it doesn't really make sense though because you'd end up with a not much faster computer for all your effort. That 3.6 is still selling for $450 at Newegg and it's out of stock.

A gig of PC3200 is under $150, and that would liven up your 3.2EE a bit. In fact you can get a Mushkin 1GB kit 2 X 512 for $137.

 

[o1die]

I don't know why anyone would choose socket 775 over amd's socket 939. I've been running a northwood for awhile, but my next build will be amd.

 

[LTC8K6]

So you can use Intel's newer chips? That would seem to be a very good reason.

 

[imported_Intelfanboy]

but i already have a mobo for the lga775. and the 3.6 used is like 330.

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, if you want to do it go ahead.

Just don't expect that much more performance unless you are into benchmarks. It will be a little faster.

Does the LGA775 board you have need DDR2? If not, then you can still use the PC2700 but it will still be hampering your performance unless you can get it to run at 200Mhz.

 

[imported_Intelfanboy]

it can run the PC2700, but i wanna get OCZ PC3200, 2-2-3 ram.

 

[Appledrop]

u cud sell the motherboard with the cpu and h/s/f fitted in a bundle on ebay for a big chunk, and use it to buy a 939 motherboard + cpu 3200+ ram , then u cud overclock to 2.5ghz+ easily (from 2.0) and it would be super fast! (mine is!)

edit:: have you tried OVERCLOCKING your current CPU to 3.6ghz? it may work, and would be better than a norm 3.6 because its so totally EXTREME

 

[CheesePoofs]

If you can't afford new ram, which i think is what you were saying, then spend the money you have on a 939 board and an A64 3200 or 3500. THis way, you could still reuse your ram, and having pc2700 ram doesn't have a big difference on performance.

 

[LTC8K6]

He already has a spare LGA775 board, so why spring for an AMD board?

This isn't making any sense to me. He has a lot of expensive stuff for a guy who can't afford 2 sticks of ram.

Sell the LGA775 board to get some money for some good ram and then overclock your Emergency Edition chip.

PC2700 makes a big difference to a bandwidth hungry P4.