Upgrade from 2000+ 266FSB to 3200+ 333FSB worth it?

[dharhas]

Hi,

I have a older system based on an abit NF7 motherboard with an Athlon 2000+ in it. From what I can tell the motehrboard will support up to 333FSB and from your website the 3200+ is the highest I can find with 333FSB. What kind of performance jump am I looking at. I'm mainly concerned about video editing. The system has 1GB of PC2700 DDR.

- dharhas

[D.8080]

Birthday video editing or semi serious?

If you can get it with a decent price why not, but 2 gigs of ram would be a good couple too.


If you want to keep all youe stuff maybe try to find some socket 939 used motherboard + cpu, more performing or at least less cash to upgrade.

[gshv]

3200+ is the highest socket A CPU with 333 MHz FSB, but it's very difficult to find. You may consider Athlon XP 3000+ instead - it'll also be pretty good boost for your computer, and it will be cheaper.

Gennadiy

[dharhas]

birthday/home video stuff for sending to parents. Presently rendering about an hour of DV to dvd format takes a 3-4 hours and the system becomes unstable if I try and do anything else while its rendering.

I want to keep my existing components, since I don't want to spend a lot of money on buying new memory/video cards etc...

- dharhas

[Wizzard1]

Sempron 3000+ is a winner too.