I`m going to upgrade my PC to a faster one, my current system is PIII 866, 256MB (PC133 MHZ standard), 40 GB 7200 RPM Hardisk.
So here`s my question:
How much faster will the P4 1800 MHZ Northwood be, compare to my "old" PIII 866 ?
I hope it going be at least doubble as fast as my PIII 866 ?
Also, i need to buy a new motherboard, as well as new RAM, but is it posibble in the meantime, to actueally use the old PC133 256MB RAM, on a P4 Motherboard ?
Is it possible to avoid installing a floppydisk, when you`r going to build a complete new PC, and instead use the cdrom which will be installed on this new PC ?
I do see a lot of Posting message in Toms hardware gui.. Community, about AMD disskusion VS Intel.
One thing is for shure, i will never buy AMD processor, i have my reasons!.
Twice as fast depends on what you'll be doing with your computer.
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is it posibble in the meantime, to actueally use the old PC133 256MB RAM, on a P4 Motherboard ?
Yes, but it will be terrible performance, and you'll have to buy a new motherboard to use anything else.
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Is it possible to avoid installing a floppydisk, when you`r going to build a complete new PC, and instead use the cdrom which will be installed on this new PC ?
Absolutely. I don't have a floppy drive in my computer anymore.
It's useless. I haven't touched my floppy drive in more than a year! Get an ABit IT7 or AT7 and don't install a floppy drive and you'll truly have a 21st century PC.
One thing is for shure, i will never buy AMD processor, i have my reasons!.
You can reuse that 256 megs of sdram, intel makes p4 sdram boards, also you can get much better value by getting the 1.7ghz p4, its waay cheaper than the 1.8 and only slightly slower.
With your sdram you can have the whole deal for about 300 bucks, enjoy.
I do believe telling someone to get a 1.7 and SDRAM is considered cruel and unusual punishment
As for the floppy drive, I just like the feeling of not having it. Kind of like if you go commando one day, you feel so much more free, even though there's not really any benefit.
AMD_Man, I know this forum server is slow sometimes but it nearly always gets the clicks eventually. How about being patient after hitting the Post button instead of double and triple posting??? Mucho appreciated...
You can reuse that 256 megs of sdram, intel makes p4 sdram boards, also you can get much better value by getting the 1.7ghz p4, its waay cheaper than the 1.8 and only slightly slower.
Man isn't tha just a combination made in hell? YOu may as stay with your sytem if you're going to get that. If he's not going to overclock then maybe the 1.7 would be ok, but that SDRAM would seriously kill it. You really need at least PC2700 or PC800 RDRAM to start to utilize the abilities of the P4.
By the way, what kind of video card do you have? If you have a low-end card, then it may be time to upgrade that before your motherboard/CPU/RAM. Like a GF2MX won't all that better on a faster comp. For example on one of my comps a PIII600E with 256MB of PC100 SDRAM and a GF2MX, I got a score of ~2100 in 3D MARK2K1 SE. My buddy has a P4 1.7 with 256MB of PC800 RDRAM and a GF2MX400 with 64MB of meme and he got a whopping 300 points more than me.
what do you plan on using your computer for? If you just browse the web and do email than your wasting your money.
Only upgrade if what your application that you use or the types of applications you use become too slow (takes 10 minutes to load, takes forever to do something etc...), then upgrade. At least, thats what i recommend.
Too slow is too general of a term. Can you explain what you use your computer for then i can tell you rather or not a 1800mhz (equaivalent to AMD's 1400mhz athlon XP in most (95%) benchmarks) computer is too slow?
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ya i agree i haven't touched my floppy drive in 2 to 3 years it seems like. ... i used it once to copy files onto my bro's disk. DOn't even need to boot up dos so you can format your hard drive just pop in the windows 2000/xp disk.
Now i have a 256MB Flash card and that works better than a floppy to transfer files from my laptop to my computer or to my PDA and view or listen(yes it plays MP3's and plays them quite well i might add) or watch (it can play movie files too) the files. PDA's are sooo cool! I highly recommend.
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