Worth switch?

[thejetsaddict]

Heres the deal.......
p4 3.0
6600gt pci-e
1 gig ocz gold el 2-3-2-5


Im gettin really frustrated with the performance of this comp. Mainly in HL2.........
HL2 is clearly and Athlon64 prefered game as can be seen many places. Do u think it is worth it though for me to switch to an athlon64 or just invest in a ati x850 and use that with my current p4.

I am a reformed intel user who is from now on going to build only AMD systems, but for now what im thinking is to buy the x850 and wait for the dual core x2's or the price of FX to drop.

any thought?

 

[czech09]

Get a San Diego chip and a nice 939 mobo and call it a day . I have a 3800+ and a Neo4 Platinum mobo f/s if you'd be intersted in those.

-Lubomir

 

[Promethply]

Yeah, if you've already have the P4 3.0GHz, might as well wait for the dual cored Athlon64 system to come down in price before you start building a new system.

 

[Elfear]

You'll see a much bigger difference going with an X850 over your 6600GT than you would switching to an A64 system.

 

[Lithan]

Originally posted by: Elfear
You'll see a much bigger difference going with an X850 over your 6600GT than you would switching to an A64 system.

 

[HeaterCore]

Yep. Your P4 isn't the bottleneck in that system. Definitely go with the new card.

And (don't sue me if something goes wrong) have you considered overclocking your CPU a bit? You've got some RAM that will stand a decent overclock, at least. If the rest of the system is decent, and you invest $30-40 in an XP-90/XP-120, you should be able to push that Prescott to 3.4GHz at a minimum with very little risk.

-hc-

 

[Duvie]

Get the new card!!!! and if you need to get a bit more cpu then OC the comp 200-400mhz.....


No point getting dual cores until they come out with more multithreaded games....

 

[n7]

I'll echo what everyone else has said.

Try OCing your P4 a bit if that's possible, but yeah, getting a better video card would help more.

 

[Aenslead]

Get the video card.

 

[thejetsaddict]

I have OCed the p4. I have a freezer7 in there with as5. However upon OCing i could only get to 235 fsb with timings of 3-4-4-8. Cant get any higher even with divider set, problem is

1) Bios wouldnt let me lock the pci-e frequency at all, even with no increase in fsb if I locked the pci-e frequency to anything(including 100) it would result in a failed boot.
2) Even at 3.5 approx OC, Prime tested, CS:source seemed to run worse. This seemed to happen at any overclock so I switched it back to default.

P.S. anyone find when OCing p4 that with an increased fsb when you restart the comp it shuts completely off first before turning back on, instead of just resetting like it should?

So I will most likely be going for the x850....Happy birthday to me

forgot to add the mobo is p5gdc-v delux lga775