I have been trying to find benchmarking to give me an idea how my P4 2.6ghz chip compares to the Athlon 64 chips (i.e. 3000+ or 3200+).
Besides being 64bit, how much of a performance difference should I expect to see if I switch to the Athlon 64. I'd likely go with a MSI K8N Neo4 SLI motherboard, 1gb ddr ram, and the NVidia 7600GT video card.
My current ATI Radeon 9600XT just died so I'm not sure if it makes sense just to go with an ATI Radeon X1600 pro AGP and keep the P4 2.6ghz or should I just make the switch to the Athlon 64? I could also just upgrade the P4 to a 3.0e or 3.2e as well.
Thanks!
Besides being 64bit, how much of a performance difference should I expect to see if I switch to the Athlon 64. I'd likely go with a MSI K8N Neo4 SLI motherboard, 1gb ddr ram, and the NVidia 7600GT video card.
My current ATI Radeon 9600XT just died so I'm not sure if it makes sense just to go with an ATI Radeon X1600 pro AGP and keep the P4 2.6ghz or should I just make the switch to the Athlon 64? I could also just upgrade the P4 to a 3.0e or 3.2e as well.
Thanks!