Looking both ways, quick post, bye........
benjmn33 said:
Thanks for all the help everyone, It has made my research much easier thusfar.
I still don't think I will make the price jump to 64 but I do appriciate it's place in the market. I like to keep up with the Leroy's - they live in the Jones' garage. The price drop and the fact that I'm not "for hire" allows me a good buffer from "the New New."
Elevate thanks for the info about the mobile chips - I'didn't even think of it. I have seen some deals on good boards for them.
thanks again
How much floating point processing do you do? (like reverb plugins and stuff)
The athlon is better than the pentium, and the athlon 64 is much better than the pentium, in BENCHMARKS, on floating point.
Since you have a dual processor system, I would boost it to 1 gig ram and a 8meg ram cache hard drive. I think that would make you happy for the least amount of money. Partial upgrades usually don't work in my experience, and I won't reccomend them anymore. Do this and then save for the next gen of dual core processors.
Most of the time your system is waiting on the harddrive, memory, etc. Check your cpu utilization, 512 is only 256 per processor, not a lot with 2000.
is your system optimized (like swapfile, virt memory and sector size on the harddrive).
Try
www.tomshardware.com , there is a wealth of info on drives and processors there. also
www.videoguys.com, there is an article there about optimizing a system for video, has a lot in commen with what you want to do.
A new mb, cpu, ram, and drive and power supply and you are not far from a whole new system with warranty. If you get a new cpu and mb, you may just be able to wait faster.
good luck
jon
ps
be careful if you upgrade to xp, I think you will need xp pro to support dual processors, and I think it will have to be an upgrade, not new install. Check first cause this was the way it was when xp was introduced and it may have changed. The dual core cpu's are seen as 2 processors so I don't know what it does now, for sure.