Performance Improvement P4PE to P4C800-E Deluxe?

[Ken]

I posted this question on the "other look alike" ASUS Mainboard newsgroup
but did not see any recent activity on anything. So let me ask the same
question again.

Before I go spend $450 on a new MB, Memory and CPU can someone give me a
feel for the performance improvement I'll get (%) going from a 2.53 GHz
Northwood CPU on the P4PE MB to the to a 3.0 GHz Prescott CPU on the
P4C800-E Deluxe MB and upgrading from 333 DDR (1-512 MB) memory on the P4PE
to 400 DDR memory (2-512 MB) on the P4C800-E. Thanks. I just need some
help rationalizing this upgrade. I normally wait until the cpu speed is
doubled before I upgrade but I think those days are gone for awhile.

 

[DaveW]

My estimate of the speed increase is 17% for the CPU, 20% for the RAM, 5%
for the motherboard's chipset. Add it up and you get around 45% total speed
increase.

 

[deus maximus]

I posted this question on the "other look alike" ASUS Mainboard newsgroup
but did not see any recent activity on anything. So let me ask the same
question again.

Before I go spend $450 on a new MB, Memory and CPU can someone give me a
feel for the performance improvement I'll get (%) going from a 2.53 GHz
Northwood CPU on the P4PE MB to the to a 3.0 GHz Prescott CPU on the
P4C800-E Deluxe MB and upgrading from 333 DDR (1-512 MB) memory on the P4PE
to 400 DDR memory (2-512 MB) on the P4C800-E. Thanks. I just need some
help rationalizing this upgrade. I normally wait until the cpu speed is
doubled before I upgrade but I think those days are gone for awhile.

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The improvement will be noticeable in areas where memory affects
the result.Opening word or web pages, moving folders, etc . The
limit is the disk drive performance --in most machines this is not
a speed much improved by increase in cpu since it operates near
its limit in any case. There will be a slight hdd speed increase
tho and combined with the increase in memory performance boot
times and graphic displays ( video game framerates) will show the
best improvement.


Best Regards,

 

[DanO]

Have you tried simply overclocking your current system?

IMHO, you will not see any significant improvement in performance between
those two systems (at least not $450 worth.) If you're going with a new
system, why not look toward the future with DDR2/PCI Express based systems?
At least then you're getting the latest technology.