How much improvement is E6300 over Northwood 3.2ghz?

[Bottomsup]

I'm debating whether to get all new memory, board, video card, and an E6600 or get that cheap asrock board, keep my AGP 6800GT, keep my PC3500 RAM and get the lower end E6300.

I can aford to buy all new stuff, but all i play is Counterstrike and HL2 so do i really need all that horse power right now?

[thegreek]

it'll destroy it... you may need to read up on some benchmarks... they're everywhere

[rainless]

I'm debating whether to get all new memory, board, video card, and an E6600 or get that cheap asrock board, keep my AGP 6800GT, keep my PC3500 RAM and get the lower end E6300.

I can aford to buy all new stuff, but all i play is Counterstrike and HL2 so do i really need all that horse power right now?

Let me, once again, be the voice of reason and tell you NOT to get an ASRock... Sure you're only playing CounterStrike and HL2, but an ASRock isn't even worthy of that... Maybe if you were just using Photoshop it would be okay, but those things are just paperweights. They don't have firewire ports, they only have 1 full speed PCI e port, there is no volt settings, and all the rest of the ASRock settings are rather questionable...

Spend 20 bucks more and get a 100 dollar board.

[nd4spdbh2]

ur joking right.... any northwood compared to a conroe... AHHAHAHAHHAH FUNNY!!! and this is comming from a guy with a P4 3.0ghz northwood :beer: ... just do a fully upgrade and you will be good for quite some time... thats what ima do my comp is 2.5 yrs old and is seriously outdated... time for something new.

[Bottomsup]

Let me, once again, be the voice of reason and tell you NOT to get an ASRock... Sure you're only playing CounterStrike and HL2, but an ASRock isn't even worthy of that... Maybe if you were just using Photoshop it would be okay, but those things are just paperweights. They don't have firewire ports, they only have 1 full speed PCI e port, there is no volt settings, and all the rest of the ASRock settings are rather questionable...

Spend 20 bucks more and get a 100 dollar board.

yeah i agree, but i'm not going to get a PCI-e card. I'm debating whether to get this board to hold me over until i feel like my 6800GT is outdated. For now it still works pretty good IMO

[Mr.Guvernment]

^^^^ a conroe isnt going to make your games any faster.

i say wait and get everything new at once instead of buying stuff now.

[batboy]

I don't think there is a mobo that supports Conroe that has an AGP slot. So, you want to cling onto your 6800 GT, then just keep your current system. First quarter of next year DX10 and Windows Vista will be out (I hope). That will generate a new crop of vid cards. If you can hold out until then and save some bucks up, that might be worth the wait. By then, the quad cores will be out which means the Conroes will drop in price even more.

[Jame Gumb]

There's an ASRock board that permits AGP with C2D but it prolly sucks.

775Dual-VSTA DDR DDR2 AGP PCIe

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157092&ATT=13-157-092&CMP=OTC-d3alt1me
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/asrock/775Dual-VSTA/g1.htm

[microfire]

Yes there is, don't forget the Asrock 775I65G with Intel® 865G chipset.
http://www.asrock.com/product/775i65G.htm
If you currently have memory that doesn't need a lot of voltage to overclock to 266MHz @ 1:1, then why not, the only bad part is any Conroe CPU costs way more than the motherboard. All in all not much of a cheap upgrade. You might be better off to sell all your old parts and all buy new parts.