What should I do?

Hi,

I have a p4 2.8 (400mhz) running at 3.0 on motherboard that only supports PC133 (1.25G of Ram) and AGP 4x.

I have an oppotunity to upgrade to a motherboard that supports supports DDR 400 & AGP 8x, although I would have to purchase a gig of DDR 400. Would I see any performance increase for the $130 I have to spend on the RAM?

The new board is an intel D865GLC chipset and as far as I know cannot be overclock, so I will be running at 2.8

Summary - 3.0ghz on PC133 or 2.8ghz on DDR400 ??

Thanks,
Aaron

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There is hardly going to be any notable difference with a 200 MHz OC anyway. I do not believe the upgrade of RAM will be truly worth it either unless you will be using hefty apps requiring loads of memory. If I were youI'd get a a DDR2 MB. But if not, why not get this board and it can OC: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131484

Abominable1 said:

There is hardly going to be any notable difference with a 200 MHz OC anyway. I do not believe the upgrade of RAM will be truly worth it either unless you will be using hefty apps requiring loads of memory. If I were youI'd get a a DDR2 MB. But if not, why not get this board and it can OC: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131484

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Well the mobo is free, I thought the AGP 8x and the dual channel DDR would help. I want to spend as little as possible

Well, in the case of the MB being free I'd get the RAM. Is your Video Card AGP 8X compliant?

Yep, Geforce 6800GS.

although looking at benchmarks between agp 4x and 8x there doesnt seem to be a huge difference, making the memory bandwith and 64bit bit HDD addressing the only diff..

I'll think about it a little more, thanks for your responses.