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camb03

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Jun 25, 2002
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.
 
Why not just go with a P4P800? It's about the same price as a P4PE-L and it supports 400/533/800 fsb (almost all P4 cpus)

Also, you can get a 128mb Albatron Ti4200 for $95. Most newer games need 128mb on the video card.

-Bobby
 
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