[Mauldor]

My Current System is starting to Feel a tad slow, Athlon 2600 Thoroughbred 1 GIG ram and Radeon 9660XT (256Meg ram). Now Ive asked around and everybody but everybody says the same thing - Go Socket 939...

The probelm with this is Price vs Perfomance and this is where I am struggling to work out which route to go tbh..

Athlon 3700 running at 2.4ghz with 1 Meg Cache Socket 754 = £175
Socket 754 Motherboard with AGP - Lets say £50-60

Reason behind that is basically I can use all the bits from my Exsisting PC and it would work, just a lot faster and the least amount of money.

Athlon 3800 running at 2.4 Ghz but ONLY 512K Cache = £255
Socket 939 Motherboard PCI EXpress = £90
New Power Supply (required for S939 so I hear) = £50
New Gfx card GeForce 6600 for example = £100
Might as well then buy a case and Ram and make a whole new system

You can see my thoughts, first option is a Lot cheaper, yer the 9600XT is not as good as GeForce 6600 for example but I have no problems running the games I play in 1280x1024 which is by chance the max res i can do anyhow.

I understand 754=Single ram and 939= Dual ram plus faster bus etc.

Basically - from the above, will I really see a vast difference between the two with my eye balls??