Put an Ultra in PII/333?

[tfbww]

I have a PII/333 w/ 128MBs RAM (TNT vidcard) and I am thinking of upgrading to an Ultra for a couple reasons: I'd like to wait until the AMD chipsets w/ 266MHz FSBs and DDRRAM support are really available; I'll use the Ultra in whatever machine I end up with; gaming graphics are what's killing my machine.

Will I get a big boost in performance or is my processor just going to bottleneck my system before I notice it?

 

[Crashman]

I believe 3D-Mark 2000 will show a big boost, but the rest would depend on the games your using. I say overclock the one you got. I think the only games that will improve are those specifically optimized for D3D. Open GL games are much more processor intensive and probably won't improve at all.

 

[Crashman]

I believe 3D-Mark 2000 will show a big boost, but the rest would depend on the games your using. I say overclock the one you got. I think the only games that will improve are those specifically optimized for D3D. Open GL games are much more processor intensive and probably won't improve at all. Anyone else?

 

[tfbww]

I'll show my ignorance here and say that I thought it was the OpenGL games where the Ultra cards shine. I didn't realize that cards were that dependent on the CPU. I guess my thought is that I could always stick to the D3D versions of games until I move into a Thunderbird.

Is it just hopeless w/ a PII/333?

 

[Crashman]

I believe it has to do with the amount of data being transfered as well as computation. You also have to remember that you will probably be limited to 1X APG transfers.

 

[rcf84]

go ahead put it on now. and wait till the athlon comes the compare the results you'll get a nice warm feeling


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[phsstpok]

Better read the review here a TomsHardware. The Asus A7V133 with the KT133A chipset hardly does better than its predecessor, about 4.5% better framerates in quake III with the faster 133Mhz FSB. The AMD 760 solution has about 15% better framerates than an Asus A7V.

We will have to see how the new boards are at overclocking. However, I personally, will not spend the money for a new motherboard just for 4.5% nor a new motherboard AND new memory for 15% improvements.

Here is a link to the review.

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q1/010104/index.html

 

[Grizely1]

Wait for just only 1 month and the KT133a will be available

WHAT? The KT133A is a piece of junk! It doesn't even have DDR SDRAM support. It's no better than the KT133. The AMD760 is by far the best AMD chipset at this time. Go for it and an Ultra.