CPU upgrade

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Hi all, I have a P4 2.8E and I was wondering if upgrading it to a P4 3.4E
would take more Frames per second out of my AX800pro?

Thanks in advance, Silva
 
NSA said:
Hi all, I have a P4 2.8E and I was wondering if upgrading it to a P4 3.4E
would take more Frames per second out of my AX800pro?

Thanks in advance, Silva
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It'll be faster, but don't expect wonders. If you're only running 512Mb DDR
a better and cheaper upgrade would be to 1 Gig.
 
NSA said:
Hi all, I have a P4 2.8E and I was wondering if upgrading it to a P4
3.4E would take more Frames per second out of my AX800pro?
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600MHz = about 20% increase. This is not noticable, except in benchmarking.
Can't you overclock the 2.8 a bit, and invest the money you save in
something else?

Thomas
 
First of One said:
Up to you. Is the price of a 3.4E worth a 20-25% performance gain?
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No way going from an 2.8Ghz to a 3.2 Ghz will yield a 25% performance
increase. A 25Mhz Mhz increase, yes. More like a 10% perfromance increase at
most.
 
You are correct, it was bad arithmetic on my part:

(3.2-2.8)/2.8 = ~ 14% improvement in a purely CPU-bound case, or about 10%
in most games.
 
First said:
You are correct, it was bad arithmetic on my part:

(3.2-2.8)/2.8 = ~ 14% improvement in a purely CPU-bound case, or
about 10% in most games.
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You were CORRECT: the OP was referring to a 3.4E:

(3.4-2.8) / 2.8 = 21.42 % improvement.

But again, this is not really that noticable.

Thomas
 
First said:
:-) The effect of browsing newsgroups under a hangover...
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Hahaha... I know what you're saying. I've been having that experience for
two weeks now. Unfortunately, no alcohol was involved :-(

Thomas
 
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