old vs new system will i see benefit?

[technickel]

i wondering if someone could offer there opinion i decided to upgrade my system i only wanted to get a new gfx card but i didnt want a agp one so pci-e was the only route which required new mb and cpu.

so i bought the following

AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3000+ Socket 939pin 512k L2cache
(i plan to overclock it to whatever i can get out of it)
Asus A8N SLI S939 Nvnf4sli
Xfx GeForce 6600GT PCI-E 128MB DDR3
1gb PC3200


i previously had

pentium 4 800fsb 2.4ghz (oc to 2.8) 512k cache socket 478
asus p4p800
radeon 9600 pro 128mb
1gb PC3200

after reading some of the threads on this forum im starting to feel a little worried that ive wasted my (limited) money.

will i notice a real speed increase?

 

[dragon2309]

I would say, yes, you would see a speed increase, but only in the performance of games and extreme applications. Normal running probably wont be that much faster. A possible upgrade to 2Gb RAM would have made it quite a big faster.

 

[apj101]

will i notice a real speed increase?

well if you oc the venice by about 800mhz then your going to be seeing some performance increase. You have decent motherboard so this should not be too much of a problem (would be good to know about your cooling), also your psu may ring alarm bells. If you oc'ing and running the 6600gt using the same psu then be sure it is up to the task read psu101
http://www.computerforum.com/showthread.php?t=10764
i thing your biggest noticable increase will be gaming, which is i assume your main purpose of the rig

A possible upgrade to 2Gb RAM would have made it quite a big faster.

not really

 

[j0hn00]

Whoa... an 800MHz overclock from 1.8GHz? I admit that I'm not an expert on overclocking, but isn't that a bit extreme even with a high end cooling solution?

 

[Praetor]

will i notice a real speed increase?

depends on what you're doing. if you're like most people? no. 90% of the computing populace wont notice a difference for damn near anything hehe (in your specific case they might notice a difference in gaming due to the videocard though)

whoa... an 800mhz overclock from 1.8ghz? i admit that i'm not an expert on overclocking, but isn't that a bit extreme even with a high end cooling solution?

see OC 101 but 800MHz is doable ... had mine at almost 1GHz (too ubnstable at that, had to dial back to 900ish)