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Should I?

If you can sell the p4, go with the athlon 64. Otherwise, I would keep your current system. I was unable to sell my p4 board and cpu, so I'm stuck with it. But it overclocks well.
 
What do you want to do with it????

3ghz prescott is decent at multimedia but down there in terms of gaming...Have you tried Ocing that toaster???



one thing to think about is that any upgrade at this point may make it necessary to go pci-e, and are you ready for that???
 
The system you have is a nice system, I myself prefer AMD's and think you would likely see a small performance increase in most things except encoding if you switched and a more noticeable increase in gaming. But I would only switch if you can do it with only a small price difference, definately not worth taking a big loss to switch.
 
a 3ghz prescott is still going to take a 2.2-2.4ghz A64 to equal it in encoding prowess, but in gaming can get its arse handed to it with far less....

So a lateral upgrade may be pointless, and likely all you will get with little monetary investment...
 
The no big hassle would be get a NF3 ultra mobo with agp port like an epox or the MSI neo2 platinum and a 3000+ venice....OC it a bit and likely have a 3800+ chip with little hassle...

You should be fine for power I think....

the prssy 3.0ghz would likely still sell for decent so as to offset the cost of the venice and that way the only real cost is the mobo.....you are set everywhere else...
 
:thumbsup:

I agree, if you can't overclock your current system, you probably would see a nice increase with a Venice 3000+ and an NF3 board for a reasonable investment. And I just hate proprietary HP and Dell boxes😀
 
CPU's usually last a long time. I've got a couple over 20yrs that haven't died. You might be waiting a long time🙂

I guess it depends on your finances?

If you've got plenty and want the best, sell mobo,CPU and GPU and go NF4,X2 and PCI-e
If you've got some and want better, sell mobo and CPU and get NF3 and Venice
If you have nada, do nothing and keep what you got:beer:
 
if someone with a sempron and 5000 series card is beating you I would kick that cpu to the curb, regardless..... sounds like you are wasting a nice gt card
 
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