What P4 2.8/800 3.0/800 3.2/800 or 3.4/800

[thepharcyde]

Hi Guys,

My current specs below, I am looking to upgrade my dated 2.4/533 to a 800bus type.

My question to all out there money not being a object, would I notice a visable difference between 2.8-3.4 running at HT? Obviously I could clock the 2.8 to 3.4ish or 3.4 to possibly 4.0Ghz with my fan configuration.

But the big question!!!! Would I notice a difference if alls I do is play Vietcong and browse the net would my money be well spent.

How much of a increase would I see using 3dmark2003?

Many thanks


Pentium 4 2.4b/533
EPOX 4PGAI 800 BUS Mobo
1024MB PC3200/400DDR
Excalibur Ice-Q 9800Pro
120GB (IBM i think!) hard drive 2MB

[Ethos]

If money is no object, personally I'd got for the 3.4, heh! At the end of the day its up to you how much money you spend tho.

You might notice a small increase in 2003.. but mainly 2001. 2003 is mainly gfx scored. whereas 2001 isnt. U would see a nice increase!

[Applecrusher]

Cant thoes 2.4 reach stupidly high clock speeds on air cooling?

[Ethos]

Some of them yes! But then again 3.4ghz stock is pretty speeeeeedy

[thepharcyde]

I used to be able to clock to 3.0/3.1 prior to purchasing my 9800pro. it might be connected to having a low PSU also, so I buying both at the same time, anyhow my p4 is 533 bus so is not HT so despite having Dual Memory, my bandwidth is not!!
thx

[Ethos]

Yea Ht + more memory bandwidth = teh win! I turned off Ht the other day and it was SOO noticeable.

What psu u got now, and what are u planning on getting?

[thepharcyde]

Yea Ht + more memory bandwidth = teh win! I turned off Ht the other day and it was SOO noticeable.

What psu u got now, and what are u planning on getting?

300watt!!! jeantech!!!

I purchased a 400Watt from PC world to try this out, but still no over 2.6 clocking, so not sure whats going on bar the fact that I have a new gfx card from my old GF4 MX44064MB!

[Ethos]

Made sure you've got pci/agp lock on? Ati cards tend not to like going out of sync....