Is a Pentium 3 to 4 worth the upgrade?

2nuts4_u · 04-02-2006, 08:13 AM

Will it run faster and hold more memory by a lot?

34erd · 04-02-2006, 08:19 AM

The general answer would be "yes", but what are your system specs and what are you planning on upgrading to?

**ceewi1** · 04-02-2006, 08:21 AM

Well, there's a little more to it than that, but yes, upgrading from a P3 to a modern, new P4 will provide a significant boost to performance. If you're talking about upgrading to an older, second-hand P4, you may not notice the difference.

By 'holding more memory', I assume you're referring to hard drive capacity. This is independant of the architecture, and rather simply a question of what sized hard drive you have (although a P3 may not support hard drives larger than 137GB without a BIOS flash, drive overlay program, or seperate controller card).

EDIT: Beat me too it, 34erd

2nuts4_u · 04-02-2006, 08:28 AM

How do you check your system specs. I own a sony vaio laptop model pcg-881r.

**ceewi1** · 04-02-2006, 08:50 AM

Take a look at the "How do I find this information" section of Questions 101

lee101 · 04-02-2006, 10:17 AM

if it's the vaio laptop you are planning on upgrading then it may be best to just get a new laptop, as you would probably need a whole new motherboard for the laptop aswell, and the processor, and the would both be very hard to find to fit you specific laptop

Lee

SlothX311 · 04-02-2006, 12:11 PM

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1140393588851

only 749.99 comes with turion 64 and 512 ram, much better than any p4 system

**dragon2309** · 04-02-2006, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlothX311

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1140393588851

only 749.99 comes with turion 64 and 512 ram, much better than any p4 system

grrr.... AMD fanboy

xxamdxx · 04-02-2006, 09:37 PM

amd is awsome

cell4me · 04-03-2006, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxamdxx

amd is awsome

For games! What if he dont want a gamming computer?

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ceewi1 Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 5,237	Well, there's a little more to it than that, but yes, upgrading from a P3 to a modern, new P4 will provide a significant boost to performance. If you're talking about upgrading to an older, second-hand P4, you may not notice the difference. By 'holding more memory', I assume you're referring to hard drive capacity. This is independant of the architecture, and rather simply a question of what sized hard drive you have (although a P3 may not support hard drives larger than 137GB without a BIOS flash, drive overlay program, or seperate controller card). EDIT: Beat me too it, 34erd __________________ CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 / MOBO: Gigabyte 965P-DS3 / GPU: Gigabyte HD4870 RAM: 2GB G.Skill F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK / HDD: 2TB Total HDD / PSU: Antec NeoPower 480W Cheap PSUs - 2% of system costs, responsible for 28% of system deaths As Sealed Stick was removed, lost or damaged, it shall be out of warranty validity. - The "Warranty void if removed" sticker on numerous CoolerMaster PSUs. Useful PSU Guides

04-02-2006, 08:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
ceewi1 Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 5,237	Take a look at the "How do I find this information" section of Questions 101 __________________ CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 / MOBO: Gigabyte 965P-DS3 / GPU: Gigabyte HD4870 RAM: 2GB G.Skill F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK / HDD: 2TB Total HDD / PSU: Antec NeoPower 480W Cheap PSUs - 2% of system costs, responsible for 28% of system deaths As Sealed Stick was removed, lost or damaged, it shall be out of warranty validity. - The "Warranty void if removed" sticker on numerous CoolerMaster PSUs. Useful PSU Guides

04-02-2006, 10:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
lee101 VIP Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Age: 17 Posts: 1,150	if it's the vaio laptop you are planning on upgrading then it may be best to just get a new laptop, as you would probably need a whole new motherboard for the laptop aswell, and the processor, and the would both be very hard to find to fit you specific laptop Lee __________________ My PC: Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 Ghz, Asus P5v-VM DH , 200 GB Maxtor SATA ,2GB (21GB Kingston DDRII), Radeon x1650 Graphics (256 mb), 2 Acer 17 inch TFT's, Windows Vista Home Premium Server: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 256 Mb Ram, 8Gb IDE for o/s, 2 * 250GB SATAII for storage, Ubuntu Server 7.10

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2nuts4_u New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11	How do you check your system specs. I own a sony vaio laptop model pcg-881r.

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SlothX311 Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Canton, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 705	http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1140393588851 only 749.99 comes with turion 64 and 512 ram, much better than any p4 system

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xxamdxx Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Downers Grove, IL Age: 17 Posts: 186	amd is awsome __________________ amd phenom 9600 quad core 2 gigs ocz gaming ram 160 gig wd hd windows xp sp2 ati radeon 4850 22" samsung lcd Klipsch pro media ultra 5.1

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