Upgrade dilema 3.4 vs 3.0

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Amanda

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I have a problem. I currently have a socket 478 3.4 CPU. It will do 3.8 GHz with watercooling, sometimes 4.0. I can upgrade to a 778 motherboard (Asus P5P800) and a 3.0 CPU that can overclock to 3.6 with air (not sure on water yet).

I'm running an AGP card (x800xt), 2GB DDR RAM, not using onboard sound....

I'm not sure what my upgrade should be. I could run 3.6 now and upgrade to a dual core down the road with the new board, but I'd be losing some speed. Not that it matters much... Just bragging rights, but I like those!;)

Anything else I should care about other than future upgrades? I wouldn't mind hitting a dual core 64 bit intel CPU down the line. But the Socket478 runs perfect. Since both are running a similar chipset, I doubt I'd have to do a complete reformat and reinstall.

Any suggestions?! ;) Thanks!
 
I'd just save up money and swap out everything right up to the video card and RAM when you're ready to upgrade. No sense in piecemealing things at this point. It sounds like your current setup is working fine for now anyway.
 
Forgot to mention it would be a free switchout. Just trade motherboard and processor straight over. No cost to me or him. :O
 
I'm not sure that mobo (865 chipset?) is going to work with dual core CPU's anyway. Might be worth it to trade it out to play with, but I wouldn't expect miracles with new CPU's. Might be limited to the 5XX series.
 
wait a little longer for a 975 chipset motherboard that will support Conroe. Intel's BadAxe is supposed to support it in a few weeks. And others should support it with later revisions.

See Anandtech.com about the Conroe @ 2.66Ghz if you need to see why you'll want to be able to support Conroe.

If you have to get something now (don't see why if you're at 3.8Ghz already) get a 631 or 805 just to hold you over.
 
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