Upgrade to Norhtwood 3.2- What my Best bet?

[Natemeister]

My current system is as follows:
Abit IC7-G
P4 Northwood 2.4 OC'd to 3.0 ( stable)
PC-2700 1 Gig

I would like to pick up some processing horsepower for converting DV camcorder video and burning them to DVD.

Question: Can I realize any significant increase in performance by upgrading to a Northwood 3.2 and upgrading memory to say PC-3200 or PC- 4000? Or is my current OC'd 2.4 to 3.0 about the same?

What are my best options for improving perfomance with my Abit IC7G MB?

Thanks

 

[Duvie]

What I can tell you in my testing is these apps scale pretty linear for just cpu speed....If you can get a 3.0ghz 30capper or 3.2ghz northwood you have a good chance of 3.5-3.6ghz and therefore about a near 20% gain....If you can run 1:1 with the FSB you will pick up some system gains but larger bandwidth does not always translate well in these type of apps....raw cpu speed does more...you will definitely gain some if you can move from 1000fsb with likely a 3:2 divider to a 960fsb (15x240) with a 1:1 and PC3700-PC4000 stuff...


In the future the dual core would be a good move for you...

My tmpgenc scores at 2.664ghz (3000+ winnie) where equal to my 2.4c@3.2ghz....so the 3.5ghz I had was faster but when I got X2 now at 2.664ghz I halved my winnie times (100% increase!!!!).....81% faster then the P4 2.4@3.5ghz....with HT off at 3.5ghz it was slower then my winnie by near 12%....So I am guessing it would take near a 6ghz single core P4 chip to get to same time as my X2 now. It would take 4-4.5ghz Pentium duals to do it as well...

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

check some benchies...http://www.hardwareluxx.de/cgi-bin/ubb/...ebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=000014&p=8

Those are CPUs with HTT enabled, but still id say an upgrade on socket 478 doesnt make much sense. Save for dualcore, if u really need that horsepower for ur holiday videos..