Should I upgrade? Newbie Question

Should I upgrade a 3.06b to a 800FSB board? Newbie Question

I bought a 3.06 GHZ 'B" a couple of months ago, and have a P4S8X-X with 2 sticks of 512 meg Buffalo 3200. Should I upgrade to an 800 board like the P4P800? Any performance gains?

Also, I have had stability issues with the ATI 9700 with the cat 3.2, 3.4 and omega drivers. I thought, maybe I could upgrade the board (overclocking) and possibly resolve the ATI issues.

Thanks a Bunch!

Don't bother. U just wasting your money. The performance gains don't justify a whole new setup. My .02.

there are lots of threads about driver instability in the video card forums. but make sure you uninstall the previous driver before installing the new ones

I personally dont see why it would be a waste of money to upgrade your mobo. I did mine and now I am ready for future upgrades ie: processor,SATA,etc. I also believe that the benefits of dual channel ram and the 4 phase power of the Abit mobo is very beneficial to more clockability. I need to RMA one of my sticks of ram atm but other than that I can see a benefit from running my ram @ 182. The bad stick is holding me back from achieveing more of an overclock. I can boot into windows up to 155 but the ram keeps knocking it back to a reboot. Where as before on my BE7-Raid I could only get to 146-8 stable. The real decision is only yours to make but in my opinion my 3.06 can hang in Sandra as comparing benchies to people that have a 2.4 or 2.6 that are clocked to equal to mine. I checked before purchasing mine and I had a .07 more total clock and beat the 2.4 by 100 points in Sandra 2003 (mine=3.47 his=3.40 if i remember correctly) All this and he had alot more FSB than I did me only @ 1.46 or was it 1.48 anyways he was well over 200 and I could still hang in the benchies not sure about real world though. Anyways , the decision is only yours to make but let me know what you decide to do and if so how you fair on the new mobo with the overclocking.

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