Hello,
Firstly, my specs -
Athlon XP 3000+ (I think the 333FSB version)
A7N8X Deluxe motherboard 400MHz FSB version
1.5gb ram
XFX 7800GS graphics card
Audigy 2 sound card
Recent addition : Antec Truepower 550W
And I was wondering whether people thought it was worth bothering to overclocking my system or whether I may as well just upgrade considering it's getting on quite a bit now. I'm currently running on the stock speeds - 2.17GHz for the CPU, i'm tempted to try and overclock but a) I don't know if I have one of the 'unlocked' CPUs, b) it is likely to decrease its value when it makes its way onto Ebay, and c) I have the stock heatsink and fan, although if it's any help I have one of the case fans at the top of the case, and the side case I don't bother having on anyway.
Also, I 'stole' 1gb worth of ram from my sister's machine as she knows nothing about PCs and definately didn't need that amount for what she does, and these two 512mb sticks are the Swissbit brand, which I can find nothing about. They state PC3200, the other is a Crucial stick. Is there anything more I can do with these? These two Swissbit sticks are in the two blue slots, the single on is in the black one, which makes me think they are running in their dual-channel mode (which I know nothing really about), although CPU-Z says these two Swissbit sticks are in slot 1 and slot 3, is this right? Here are some screens from CPU-Z if it helps anyone -
So yeah, basically I was just wondering whether I may as well just upgrade, or maybe there is something more I can do with my machine.
Firstly, my specs -
Athlon XP 3000+ (I think the 333FSB version)
A7N8X Deluxe motherboard 400MHz FSB version
1.5gb ram
XFX 7800GS graphics card
Audigy 2 sound card
Recent addition : Antec Truepower 550W
And I was wondering whether people thought it was worth bothering to overclocking my system or whether I may as well just upgrade considering it's getting on quite a bit now. I'm currently running on the stock speeds - 2.17GHz for the CPU, i'm tempted to try and overclock but a) I don't know if I have one of the 'unlocked' CPUs, b) it is likely to decrease its value when it makes its way onto Ebay, and c) I have the stock heatsink and fan, although if it's any help I have one of the case fans at the top of the case, and the side case I don't bother having on anyway.
Also, I 'stole' 1gb worth of ram from my sister's machine as she knows nothing about PCs and definately didn't need that amount for what she does, and these two 512mb sticks are the Swissbit brand, which I can find nothing about. They state PC3200, the other is a Crucial stick. Is there anything more I can do with these? These two Swissbit sticks are in the two blue slots, the single on is in the black one, which makes me think they are running in their dual-channel mode (which I know nothing really about), although CPU-Z says these two Swissbit sticks are in slot 1 and slot 3, is this right? Here are some screens from CPU-Z if it helps anyone -
So yeah, basically I was just wondering whether I may as well just upgrade, or maybe there is something more I can do with my machine.