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Greetings,
I've been a fan of AMD since the K5 days (Intel before that) and am in the
process of upgrading from a Duron 1400+ Pro @ 1.01 GHz with 512 MB of DDR to
an Athlon64 2800+. I'm only upgrading the mainboard itself, and it's a cheap
one being the ECS 755-A2. So cost is an issue. My first question is am I
going to see a jump in performance going from one budget chip to another? I
understand that even the lowly 2800+ has a lot of advantages over my current
Duron and it's VERY limited cache.
Also, the current memory I'm running is 333 MHz (two sticks, 256 MB each).
This should work for the new board, I assume? I'm not even sure it's running
at full speed now. Maybe somebody could enlighten me. My specs (WCPUID &
CPU-Z):
AMD Duron 1400+ (Spitfire) @ 1016.39 MHz
System bus: 213.98 MHz
System clock: 106.99 MHz with a 9.5 Multiplier
Front Side Bus: 107.0 MHz
Is there anything else I need to take into consideration when swapping the
boards? Power supply? Case ventilation? What should be different from the
current setup?
Thanks!
JW, spent the weekend digging out in...
Massachusetts
I've been a fan of AMD since the K5 days (Intel before that) and am in the
process of upgrading from a Duron 1400+ Pro @ 1.01 GHz with 512 MB of DDR to
an Athlon64 2800+. I'm only upgrading the mainboard itself, and it's a cheap
one being the ECS 755-A2. So cost is an issue. My first question is am I
going to see a jump in performance going from one budget chip to another? I
understand that even the lowly 2800+ has a lot of advantages over my current
Duron and it's VERY limited cache.
Also, the current memory I'm running is 333 MHz (two sticks, 256 MB each).
This should work for the new board, I assume? I'm not even sure it's running
at full speed now. Maybe somebody could enlighten me. My specs (WCPUID &
CPU-Z):
AMD Duron 1400+ (Spitfire) @ 1016.39 MHz
System bus: 213.98 MHz
System clock: 106.99 MHz with a 9.5 Multiplier
Front Side Bus: 107.0 MHz
Is there anything else I need to take into consideration when swapping the
boards? Power supply? Case ventilation? What should be different from the
current setup?
Thanks!
JW, spent the weekend digging out in...
Massachusetts