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ASUS P4T-E Upgrade Advice

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ldevanna

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It's been some time since I've tinkered and I'm a bit out of touch...
I have an Asus P4T-e MB with 1.7 (OC'd to 1.9mhz). With Doom coming out, I'd replaced an antiquated video card with one the the entry level 6800's. In addition, I have 512 RAMBUS with all four slots filled.
Am contemplating upgrading the CPU. I believe the board will support 2.4 P4 278 pin. Any thoughts? Will performance boost be worth it? Has anyone managed to take this board even further?
Any thoughts, suggestions or advice more than appreciated.
 
The fastest 400fsb P4 the P4T-e supports is 2.6ghz. You can pick an oem one up at TigerDirect.com or Newegg might have it. If you buy at TigerDirect don't get the cheap Speeze heatsink to go with it as it didn't fit on my p4t-e and wasn't properly contacting the cpu leading to overheating. I just ended up using the heatsink from my old cpu (see below) and it's worked so far (though I don't overclock).

Alot of guys got their p4t-e's to run up to 3.06ghz by overclocking to a 533mhz front side bus and using the 533mhz front side bus p4's but I just went the simple route. You can search and read about that at www.asusboards.com if it interests you.

I just upgraded my P4T-e from a 1.8ghz 400fsb Willamette P4 (256k cache) to a 2.6ghz 400fsb Northwood P4 (512k cache). In benchmarks it gets me around a 30% boost. Windows seems a bit snappier and games run a bit smoother but nothing dramatic. All I wanted was something to tide me over until next year when the dual-core cpu's come out and it's done that. With my Radeon 9800np I can play Doom 3 on Medium settings at 1024x768 and it's smooth. If that 6800 is 256mb's then you can probably do the same on High settings.

Chris
 
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