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should I do this upgrade?

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Right now I'm running a 2500+ barton core, nforce 2, 9700pro. I've been very tempted to uprade to a A64 3200+ probably venice core, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum.

The mobo would be an oem board only however brand new through ebay.

I'm looking for performance gains in Battlefield 2 especially, the question is will my 9700pro choke any gains the new cpu and mobo would give me. Theres probably no chance I'll upgrade my gfx card right now.

Another question is how is the quality of the A64 stock heatsink, I don't plan to overclock at the beggining but I'd probably get a good heatsink to do that later on probably a Thermalright XP-90 with the 92mm panaflo I already have.

Im' calculating the total at around 480 CDN. Thats 385 USD.
 
the stock heatsink is good for modest oc'ing. you shouldn't need a better heatsink unless you start pumping a bunch of voltage, which these cores don't need.

there will definitly be times when you are limited by the 9700, but the times that you aren't, the gaming experience will be much better and smoother. the a64 is just undeniably awesome for gaming.
 
I wouldn't necessarily lay down the cash just yet. You should be able to OC your Barton to 2.2GHz on air if you have a good heatsink and as long as you have a decent amount of RAM (512MB-1GB) with good timings 2-2-2-5 and you OC your 9700Pro, you should be able to squeeze a little more performance out of your rig.

Yes, the memory bandwidth of the A64 3200+ will be much greater and it may OC well, but I'd save up that hard earned $$ for a new A64 X2 later this year.

Just my $0.02 :)

 
jarman said:
I wouldn't necessarily lay down the cash just yet. You should be able to OC your Barton to 2.2GHz on air if you have a good heatsink and as long as you have a decent amount of RAM (512MB-1GB) with good timings 2-2-2-5 and you OC your 9700Pro, you should be able to squeeze a little more performance out of your rig.

Yes, the memory bandwidth of the A64 3200+ will be much greater and it may OC well, but I'd save up that hard earned $$ for a new A64 X2 later this year.

Just my $0.02 :)

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Yeah, Jarman (Haha, nice name) is right. Can't wait for multithreaded games!
 
i had the same mentality as you. just bought the rig in my sig(a64 3000+ /dfi sli-dr / 6800nu) from the same rig as yours. then this christmas/ early 2k6 ill go dual core. seems like a very longlasting upgrading plan. go for it!
 
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