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To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade Asus Boards??
Will I notice a drastic improvement in performance (see below) moving
from an: 1) Asus P4c800 DLX /Prescott P4 at 3.2E GHZ/ ATI Radeo 9800 Pro/ Raid 0 setup 2x 120 g S-ata Maxtor/1gig OCZ DDR to 2) Asus P5ad2 Deluxe/300 gig hd/1 gig DDR2/ PCI Express (Ati or Nvidia )? I want to improve speed of video rendering/editing/some 3D gaming (ie Far Cry & HL2) . I need the fastest machine and was recommended to go the latter route above. Can somebody explain the benefits of this upgrade or will I be disappointed? Comments? Thanx AJ |
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Your second option there doesnt contain a specific cpu or a specific video
card so its awfully hard to tell. "aj" wrote in message ... Will I notice a drastic improvement in performance (see below) moving from an: 1) Asus P4c800 DLX /Prescott P4 at 3.2E GHZ/ ATI Radeo 9800 Pro/ Raid 0 setup 2x 120 g S-ata Maxtor/1gig OCZ DDR to 2) Asus P5ad2 Deluxe/300 gig hd/1 gig DDR2/ PCI Express (Ati or Nvidia )? I want to improve speed of video rendering/editing/some 3D gaming (ie Far Cry & HL2) . I need the fastest machine and was recommended to go the latter route above. Can somebody explain the benefits of this upgrade or will I be disappointed? Comments? Thanx AJ |
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Will I notice a drastic improvement in performance (see below) moving from an: 1) Asus P4c800 DLX /Prescott P4 at 3.2E GHZ/ ATI Radeo 9800 Pro/ Raid 0 setup 2x 120 g S-ata Maxtor/1gig OCZ DDR to 2) Asus P5ad2 Deluxe/300 gig hd/1 gig DDR2/ PCI Express (Ati or Nvidi "Ted Lozenge" wrote in message .. . Your second option there doesnt contain a specific cpu or a specific video card so its awfully hard to tell. My guess is he wants to keep the same cpu. My advice would be to throw down the cash on the video card upgrade to something $$$. Chances are your video card is $100-150 jobbie. You could up that with ease. Probably won't have much of an effect on your video editing, just your gaming. I don't see upgrading a "P4 at 3.2E " really worth it. You can check out the interactive cpu charts at toms hardware for cpu comparisons in case you really need a cpu improvement. Maybe another stick of ram as well. Iffy. jody |
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Will I notice a drastic improvement in performance (see below) moving from an: 1) Asus P4c800 DLX /Prescott P4 at 3.2E GHZ/ ATI Radeo 9800 Pro/ Raid 0 setup 2x 120 g S-ata Maxtor/1gig OCZ DDR to 2) Asus P5ad2 Deluxe/300 gig hd/1 gig DDR2/ PCI Express (Ati or Nvidia )? I want to improve speed of video rendering/editing/some 3D gaming (ie Far Cry & HL2) . I need the fastest machine and was recommended to go the latter route above. Can somebody explain the benefits of this upgrade or will I be disappointed? Comments? Thanx AJ Well you will have faster CPU options--660s are great OCrs, and a 7800 or 850 video card would be a vast improvment. I have two p5p800s, thay use the 775 CPUs, but still use AGP 8x and DDR. DDR2 is getting better and PCIex is too. If you want to stay up with Intel, a 955 board is a good upgrade. The N-Force SLIs don’t OC well I hear. And who knows what chipsets the Presler/Cedar mills will work on........... -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/ASUS-U...pict58862.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=300641 |
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