A moderate upgrade

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CrazyMrB

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I'm currently running a P4 2.8 (prescott, 478) with 512mb ram, plenty of hard drive space, 9800pro agp, Audigy, and dvdrw. I was planning to upgrade to an 805 (pentium d), 1GB pc667 (single channel?), an ati xpress 200 mb, and an x1600pro. The original box was o/c'd to 3.0, but since I installed a SATA drive, I was unable to push it past stock timings. The entire upgrade will cost me about $10 (that is not a typo). I surf the internet, and occasionally play games. I also do a good deal of photochop, mess with 3d rendering programs, and encode movies into divx and xvid (mostly). I'm running a dual boot of XP Pro and Vista Beta 2, so I can get my hands on Vista 64 if need be.

Will I see a decent performance increase (I do plan to do at least a mild overclock) by going with the new set up? Am I wasting my $10 and time? I'm not really in a position to go for conroe due to the price (even though it is low, it isn't low enough), and if I wait too long I won't have a buyer for my current system at the price I need to sell it.

Thanks in advance,
B
 
I don;t think u will find any decent performance boost... The only advantage i see in this upgrade is that
1) your system will handle Vista a little better. (but seeing ur interest in running the Vista Beta 2 i think it will be pretty soon)
2) if u choose the right chipset motherboard than u will have better chance to upgrade to Conroe Processor.
 
conroe cpu is completely different architecture based on 65nm wafer, your pentium D 805 is based on 90nm wafer---completely diffrent. you CAN'T upgrade to conroe. you have to buy new parts for conroe.

but what the hell for $10? what's all the fuss? you throw away $50 for bars on friday nights.
 
The 2 biggest things that hinder performance in photoshop is your hard drive and system ram so if your looking for mas improvements in photoshop look into a new fast hard drive otherwise you should be all good. 1 gig of ram is good enough although there is never anything wrong with more. Dual core is great even if it's intel (i am running amd x2 4400) you should be happy with the extra boost you will get from it especially when rendering in 3d app's because all of them support multiple cpu rendering. The biggest improvement you will see though performance wise is in multi tasking having two system hoggin apps on there own cpu is great especially if you have your 3d app up and photoshop. More ram would also help in that situation.
 
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