It's time to upgrade and I wanted to hear your opinions. I am currently running a P3-700E on a TUSL2-C with mushkin pc133 rev 1.5. Last time I tried to o/c to 133FSB (a year ago) there were some issues with voltage not going high enough in this board so I ended up leaving it alone at 100FSB. I upgraded to the TUSL2-C from a CUV4X because I wanted an intel chipset, so I still have the CUV4X.
The question is whether to upgrade to a P4(P4PE-L MOBO,2.66CPU,ABIT TI420064MEG VIDEO CARD, 512RAM,80GIG HD, 52XCD-RW),for a about $650. In that case I can use the P3-700E with one of the 815 boards and sale the other and I will have a P4 and a P3 computer.
Or I can upgrade the processor in the TUSL2-C along with a video card, hard drive and CD-RW, and use the P3-700 for the CUV4X. The cost here would be about $320 and I will have 2 P3 computers.
In the one hand I haven't upgrade since 1999 and it would be nice to upgrade to a new generation processor with a newer card than my Viper 770 TnT2 32MB.
In the other hand I am aware I have plenty of processor power for what I use the computer but I wonder how much longer before P3's begin to be a little too slow for most average users like myself, hence I can justify upgrading to a P4.
The question is whether to upgrade to a P4(P4PE-L MOBO,2.66CPU,ABIT TI420064MEG VIDEO CARD, 512RAM,80GIG HD, 52XCD-RW),for a about $650. In that case I can use the P3-700E with one of the 815 boards and sale the other and I will have a P4 and a P3 computer.
Or I can upgrade the processor in the TUSL2-C along with a video card, hard drive and CD-RW, and use the P3-700 for the CUV4X. The cost here would be about $320 and I will have 2 P3 computers.
In the one hand I haven't upgrade since 1999 and it would be nice to upgrade to a new generation processor with a newer card than my Viper 770 TnT2 32MB.
In the other hand I am aware I have plenty of processor power for what I use the computer but I wonder how much longer before P3's begin to be a little too slow for most average users like myself, hence I can justify upgrading to a P4.