XP 1600 to XP 2400?

[jclem]

I currently have a Athlon XP 1600 on a Gigabyte 7VTXE with a GF4 Ti 4400 card. It runs most things I play well, but I picked up DOOM III recently and would like to get a bit more performance. Upgrading the video card might help but that's looking pretty expensive to make a big difference. My motherboard will take up to an AXP 2600 (266 bus version). Those are hard to find. NewEgg has the 266 version of the AXP 2400 for 79 bucks (retail package). Would it be a noticeable improvement in all-round system performance? Doom III? Is it worth $79?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tiamat]

I dont recall how well your card performs in Doom III, but as you alluded to, a new GPU would impact your playing experience the most. However the 1600+ might be a bottleneck as well...

I guess if you are happy with 1024x768 or less and just need to add a little more frames, a new cpu would be cool.

I take it your board does not support the 333 bus or 400 bus bartons?

Next after the Mobile bartons, i would try going to Excaliberpc.com and picking up a DLT3C 1800+
THis is assuming yoru baord has a working PCI/agp lock and you can overclock.


Most of the performance gains you wil get is through overclocking.

If you can overclock, the best performance you can get w/o exotic cooling would be probably 2500mhz with an OCed Mobile Barton, or 2200mhz with an OCed 1800+ DLT3C.

If you cannot overclock, the best you can do is that 2400+ which has a 2ghz clockspeed?

Whether or not its worth the 80$ is your call... You may get 5-10 frames outta it but i cant say for sure.

 

[Tetsuo316]

Before dropping the $80, you may want to read this to see if overclocking your current chip would be an option you'd consider taking. I remember overclocking my 1600+ to 1800mhz back in the day. If you are able to do that to your current chip, it would put you within 200mhz of the xp2400+ and your fsb increase would probably make up for that.

If you're interested, you could always post your specs and see if anyone has any advice on how best to proceed...

pertinent info would be your motherboard's revision number, your ram information, your heatsink and fan information, how many pci devices you have in your board...

 

[w0ss]

I was looking at upgrading a 1800xp and decided to see what I could get out of it. I overclocked it to 193x10.5 2026Mhz. It wouldn't run stable at a higher FSB. The overclock I got was better than the new cpu's I was looking at. I did have to upgrade my RAM though as I only had PC2100 but I used the oppurtunity to go from 512 to 1gig.