exile Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 A friend of mine is basically giving me or close to it($50 or less) an XP1700+ processor. I have a 1.33ghz right now and as long as I flash my bios my Motherboard will accept the new processor. For gaming will I notice much of a difference? FWIW the other parts are: 768 DDR 2100 Crucial Ram Geforce 3 I can't afford to upgrade the Geforce for atleast 6 months so that part is out for now unless I can trade something to someone for a 9700/9800 pro Just by upgrading the processor, will it make that much of a difference in this case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 If you see a difference it will be very minor. You're basically going from a 1.33GHz CPU to a 1.47GHz CPU. I believe the XP will have more cache, so you might notice things loading a bit faster, but nothing that's going to blow you away. Also, you can buy a brand new XP 1700+ for between $45 to $60 nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted February 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 The cost of the processor will be around $20 or less(probably free). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 i'd do it for free. but you will atmost see a tiny jump in gaming performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 I recently upgraded from a 1.4 Ghz Tbird to a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 and haven't exactly been "wowed" by the speed increase. Sure, it opens MS Office apps faster but render times in Vegas are remarkably similar. I knew I should have gone with the G5!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Originally posted by iCamp@Feb 28 2004, 07:40 PM I recently upgraded from a 1.4 Ghz Tbird to a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 and haven't exactly been "wowed" by the speed increase. Sure, it opens MS Office apps faster but render times in Vegas are remarkably similar. I knew I should have gone with the G5!!! Its never too late Camp to right your wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Yea, I'm really thinking about the rumored 2.5 Ghz G5 Powerbooks this summer. Liquid cooling? Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted March 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 Ok I upgraded. The performance difference is unnoticeable but I had a couple oddities. Flashing the bios made my processor run COOLER by about 8 degrees. Then when I swapped processors, the new fun + the new bios made it run about 14 degrees cooler and the fan is dead quiet. HUGE improvement for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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