Is this upgrade worth it?

[JPG1804]

I need your opinions. Right now I am on a p4 3.0ghz with one of those albatron 478 / pci-e boards. I'm looking at getting an AMD opteron 165 or X2 and swapping to a 939 crossfire motherboard. hopefully a sapphire crossfire board, but I'm still waiting to see them for sale in the US. Is that upgrade worth whatever it will cost, $350/ $400? Would I see a decent boost in performance? The benefits I am seeing are, that I would be 64 bit and crossfire ready if I decide, in the future to get an X850XT crossfire card. Video card and ram stay the same, X850XT and 1GB DDR.

 

[discochan]

I need your opinions. Right now I am on a p4 3.0ghz with one of those albatron 478 / pci-e boards. I'm looking at getting an AMD opteron 165 or X2 and swapping to a 939 crossfire motherboard. hopefully a sapphire crossfire board, but I'm still waiting to see them for sale in the US. Is that upgrade worth whatever it will cost, $350/ $400? Would I see a decent boost in performance? The benefits I am seeing are, that I would be 64 bit and crossfire ready if I decide, in the future to get an X850XT crossfire card. Video card and ram stay the same, X850XT and 1GB DDR.

If you multi-task a lot, then you will see a improvement in performance. The X2 will handle that for you. Also if you game a lot you will probably see some performance gain.

However if you dont really game and have a lot of processes going, then just stick with your P4 for now