Upgrade question

Fjive

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Thought of doing a small upgrade for my pc...a budget upgrade...
plan to get a celeron 1.3 and asus TUSL-C mobo...(no, i dont want a duron instead ;) )
since i'm on a tight budget...and i need to use most of the existing hardware from my current pc....i will have to take a celeron....because i dont want to spend money getting new (DDR) ram ... probably a new case with PSU > 250w ... and extra cooling for the system....

P3 550e
128mb pc 100 x 2
abit be6-2
Sblive Value
Elsa GF2 Ti 64mb
Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm
230w PSU

now the question is....how much performance gain can i see from the upgrade ? on games, net surfing, application work (MS office) ? or do you think there's any budget upgrade better than this ?
thanks =)
 

AndyHui

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Oct 9, 1999
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You'd get a pretty good boost for your games, as the faster CPU can allow your GeForce 2 Ti to get towards its full potential.

Anything above 500MHz is more than enough for surfing and MS Office, so you won't notice much of a difference there.