800 vs. 1000 MHz Hypertransport

[bdaley]

I'm currently running an Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester on a MOBO with the NForce 3 250GB chipset, which has a Hypertransport speed of 800 MHz.

Since the 3500+ hypertransport speed is 1GHz, I'm wondering if upgrading to a MOBO with 1 GHz hypertransport would be worth it. Would there be a noticeable increase in system speed?

Thanks for your help.

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[bdaley]

No, I invested in a high-end expensive AGP card last year, and I really don't want to get rid of it right now.

Just curious if the extra HT speed really does anything in "real world" situations.

Thanks.

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[pat]

No. even at 600 MHz, you wont notice any slowdown. But for marketing, bigger number is better!!! Your CPU support 1GHz HT, doesnt means that it use it fully.

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[Crashman]

After much testing, I've found 1000HT to have less advantage over 800HT than Dual-Channel over Single-Channel on Athlon 64's. And even that one is so small you wouldn't notice the difference. 1-3FPS on a game that's doing 50+ FPS isn't noticeable.

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[bdaley]

Yeah, I figured it probably wouldn't make much of a difference in real world use.

I guess it wouldn't be worth the upgrade, even with the added Nvidia firewall.

Thanks.

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