I recently upgraded from an athlon 500 to a t-bird 800, both with 128mb ram and same hard drive. went from pc100 to 133 also. Not much difference on windows apps. i am sure gamers notice the difference, but i was kind of disappointed. i usually recommend to customers that it becomes worth it to upgrade if you double the processor speed, but i am beginning to wonder if the processors now are so fast that the major factor in speed is hard drives?
Only one thing to do now... go buy a 15k RPM Cheetah and a UltraWide2 Controller card. We'll show that damned IDE bottleneck what's fast.
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Think good thoughts.
I have not seen any difference, but I have not bought any cutting edge new software that has called for it either. Other than WinMe.
I will usually not recommend an upgrade unless the customer is really in need of it.
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hAS ANYONE SEEN MY "cAPS lOCK kEY"?
duhh?
Post the benchmarks!!!!!
You should have benchmarked both and proven something to yourself. If you need links, I can set you up.
You should see an difference with the faster mem, unless it running at 100FSB?
Open spreadsheet enter and enter a ton of numbers then apply big formulas and you should see a difference. You could always try Photoshop....
i wish i had written down the benchmarks. i know my sandra2000 shows a big increase in memory speed, as well as a more proportional increase in cpu benchmark, but i am talking about subjective opinion here.Quote:
Originally posted by qball:
duhh?
Post the benchmarks!!!!!
You should have benchmarked both and proven something to yourself. If you need links, I can set you up.
You should see an difference with the faster mem, unless it running at 100FSB?
Open spreadsheet enter and enter a ton of numbers then apply big formulas and you should see a difference. You could always try Photoshop....
at some point i intend to get two identical hard drives to replace the two different ones i have(i still have the other system, now it is in my shop) and i can get a better idea then. Subjectively it doesn't seem as big an increase as say from a pentium233 to an amdk6-2 500 which was an earlier upgrade.
As I have stated before, thewre is no software(not even Games) that can realy tax a 500mhz system let alone a 800. Applications will not run any faster on a 350mhz machine if it was optimized for a 233. Sorry if I burst any bubbles.
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
SETI processes quite a bit faster on my 800 than it did on my 600--78 per month vs 50 per month...
I went from a PIII 500 to a PIII 750 about a month ago on one machine. Things are a bit snappier. But a faster rpm hard drive offers the best visual bang for the buck.
Benchmarks are fun, but they doen't make much difference in the world of opening Excel 2 seconds faster.
I did notice a big difference in SETI time.
I'll notice a difference inspeed between a K6-2 550 and athlon 700, and also a difference between the K6-2 550 and duron 600, don't really notice a difference between the Duron 600 and Athlon 700 though. Benchmarks would be great if it really meant something. How many of you drive down the interstate doing 0-60, then stop, then 0-60, then stop. Car benchmarks are pretty much the same.
Tony
I recently upgraded from a P3/500 to an Athlon 800. I did not really see any difference. The upgraded board let me use ata-66 and 4x agp, so I saw some better quake 3 speed, but real world? Nope, nothing visual.