i plan to buy an asrock 4coredual-vsta that suports agp and pci-e is it worth upgrading to a E6300 from my barton 3200+ and keeping my AGP 6800 gt ? i'l oc the E6300 to about 2.7- 3.0 ghz how much of an increase in average framerate can i expect ? ps:hope i posted in the right section
Well i can safely say that with an E6300 you will see alot of increase, its a whole new teck to that of your old skool Barton But you probably wont achive much in the way of FPS increase due to you 6800GT bottlenecking your E6300, are you on a budget? because a dual board (AGP and PCI-E) isnt worth it if you could get a new card and that e6300 that would be a excellent start, but if thats all you can afford to do, then go with the E6300 BTW have you looked at the E4300? maybe get one of those and a better board? Let me know
You'd get an increase, but keep in mind that you would have the VIA 880PT chipset IIRC, so on that board you *should* only be able to reach ~300fsb, so with that e6300 that translates to ~2100mhz max. As for increase, it would depend on the game. More cpu-intensive games such as RTS' like Supreme Commander would benefit much more than graphics-heavy games, but with that said you should still notice a nice gain in all games. Cheers Edit: As LengthMan said seconds before me, , maybe consider the e4300, as its higher multiplier would allow a much higher overclock, thus more performance, for cheaper! 300fsb X 9 = 2700mhz!
yes i am on a thight buget right now thx biglonglenthman i see the E4300 has a 9x multi and 300x9= 2700 and the yet to be released E4400 has a 10x multi meaning 300x10=3000 ^^ i plan to upgrade to a pci-e mobo with ddr3 (lunch in q4 2007 ) and a dx 10 video card in q2 2008
avoid thta via based board that supports both ddr1/2 and agp/pci from asrock. slow board, bad drivers, and cant overclock for balls. get their 865g based micro-atx board that supports core 2 and an e4300 (high mulit and lower fsb). for 250$ (cdn) u can shift your system to a core 2 @ 2.7ghz+:behead: