To Upgrade or not to upgrade

Evilmage

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I have a K7T Turbo From MSI.
Since AMD cpus are getting so cheap now, I was thinking about upgrading my 800mhz Duron to a 1.33mhz TBird.

Now, my question is, will upgrading my cpu with my current motherboard justify a great increase in performance. Meaning, will my memory (256 megs CS2 from Crucial) become a bottleneck if I have such a fast cpu. I know my hard drive will be a bottleneck, but I'm not using hard drive intensive work, just memory and cpu intensive work. If the performance increase isn't that much, I may as well wait to buy a DDR solution.

Another question, will my motherboard support the new Palimino Core when it comes out if I decide to wait on it?
 

Coligeon

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Well, you can always buy the Tbird, and then use it for your next rig. I don't think anyone really "Truely" sure if KT133A chips will support Palomino. I've already heard from some that the KT7A has no support for it. When you say a big increase, in what do you mean, in games, Windows loadup? In games will see improvement, but your Duron 800 is still a good CPU to tell you the truth. 256 MB is definately not a bottleneck for the Athlon, I don't think ram bottlenecks the computer, well you know nothing below 32 MB anyway ^_^. Remember, you can always use the Tbird with your DDR solution, I'm building a DDR sys right now too. Have fun.
 

DongTran

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I have two duron setups. a duron 800 w/ an a7v133, w/ 512mb cas 2 crucial sdram, and the other is a duron 750 on an MSI K7 master w/ 512mb PC2100. The reason why I wanted the K7 master is because of the stability of the AMD 760 chipset, and a little bit more performance at stock speed, albeit a little bit more pricey, but that's what my girlfriend needs. the a7v133 is my overclocking whore, and it runs fine at 933....

seriously, the DDR isn't that much faster. i have no clue about your palomino either...