Is it worth upgrading from AthlonXP 2400 to XP 3200??

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My motherboard can take up to Athlon XP3200. I currently have the
Athlon XP 2400 and PC400 DDR. I want to upgrade but keep the cost down
as well. Is it worth making the upgrade? The chip is only $115,
shipped. I could maybe get $50 for my old chip. Total cost is just
$65.

What do you guys think? Would I notice any difference in speed? I
play DIVX and mp3 a lot. I play strategy games too and The Sims type
of games.

 

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chromallly@yahoo.com wrote:

>My motherboard can take up to Athlon XP3200. I currently have the
>Athlon XP 2400 and PC400 DDR. I want to upgrade but keep the cost down
>as well. Is it worth making the upgrade? The chip is only $115,
>shipped. I could maybe get $50 for my old chip. Total cost is just
>$65.
>
>What do you guys think? Would I notice any difference in speed? I
>play DIVX and mp3 a lot. I play strategy games too and The Sims type
>of games.

You would almost certainly be unable to discern any difference at all.

 

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:00:07 -0700, chromallly wrote:

> Apr 2005 10:00:07 -0700
>
> My motherboard can take up to Athlon XP3200. I currently have the
> Athlon XP 2400 and PC400 DDR. I want to upgrade but keep the cost down
> as well. Is it worth making the upgrade? The chip is only $115,
> shipped. I could maybe get $50 for my old chip. Total cost is just
> $65.
>
> What do you guys think? Would I notice any difference in speed? I
> play DIVX and mp3 a lot. I play strategy games too and The Sims type
> of games.

unless you encode divx movies i doubt it but then the same could be said
for anything over a ghz, if you can sell both your board and cpu the 756
boards are cheap and the amd64 is hell of a fast.

 

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Try overclocking your CPU first. Some 2400's are really easy to do.
<chromallly@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My motherboard can take up to Athlon XP3200. I currently have the
> Athlon XP 2400 and PC400 DDR. I want to upgrade but keep the cost down
> as well. Is it worth making the upgrade? The chip is only $115,
> shipped. I could maybe get $50 for my old chip. Total cost is just
> $65.
>
> What do you guys think? Would I notice any difference in speed? I
> play DIVX and mp3 a lot. I play strategy games too and The Sims type
> of games.
>

 

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dawg wrote:
> Try overclocking your CPU first. Some 2400's are really easy to do.

But not necessarily with the stock cooler from a retail boxed
cpu. :-(

I gave someone an XP 2400+ from a system that was upgraded and he
tried to overclock it by using a FSB of 150 MHz instead of the
"proper" 133 MHz. It kept crashing until I put a better fan/sink
on for him - at which point he was able to bump the FSB up even
more.

Personally, I wouldn't upgrade an XP 2400+ at this late date.
Time to switch to Athlon64 if your old XP doesn't get the job
done any more.


> <chromallly@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1113238807.357188.245820@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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>>My motherboard can take up to Athlon XP3200. I currently have the
>>Athlon XP 2400 and PC400 DDR. I want to upgrade but keep the cost down
>>as well. Is it worth making the upgrade? The chip is only $115,
>>shipped. I could maybe get $50 for my old chip. Total cost is just
>>$65.
>>
>>What do you guys think? Would I notice any difference in speed? I
>>play DIVX and mp3 a lot. I play strategy games too and The Sims type
>>of games.
>>
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