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Upgrading a non-Conroe MB worth it?

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AiMnDtel

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I have a regular run of the mill 775 MB (AGP slot) running a Celeron D 331 1GB. Ram
The MB supports the following CPU's

Dual Core CPU 2.8GHz (800MHz) 920
Dual Core CPU 3.2GHz (800MHz) 840
LGA775 3.8GHz (800MHz) 670
LGA775 3.2GHz (533MHz) 351

Would it be worth it to upgrade the CPU to one the following
-Celeron D "Cedar Mill" 352
-Pentium 4 "Cedar Mill" 631
-Pentium D "Presler" 915

Would it be cost effective to go with one of these CPU's?
I do not want to upgrade to Conroe at this time.
Thanks
 
since you don;t want a core 2 duo...then you should get the fastest pentium D possible. i don;t know about cost effective cause a DS3 and e6300 is probably a little bit more expensive but the performance is way better.
 
and by way better we mean some where alonf the lines of about 5-10 times better / faster in cpu intensive tasks.

But if you just have to have something below core 2 duo, i'd say go with a a 915 pentium D.

A 915 is ~ $125, but then an e6300 cna be had for $170. You could pick up a cheap gigabyte S3 p965 for $100 and overclock that to an easy 2.8ghz. This would be near twice as fast as the 915 though. Think about it. Now is not a bad time to upgrade, unless you want to wait for further price drops when k8l is released either next month or december.

Just giving my opinion.
 
Celeron 352 is (fi you can find it) not a bad buy, being its essentially a P4 with 800MHZ bus and 512K cache, but it lacks Hyperthreading. I'd to with Pentium D 915 ($130) which runs at 2.8GHz, but it's a dual-core CPU and should come in handy with your multitasking needs, and be a little more usefull with more amd more apps being multi-threaded... Going with P4 670 would be a waist, sine you could buy a new Conroe+mobo combo for the same price. 840 is a furnace = don't even think about it... :eek:
That's what I'd do...
 
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