[ohGrFreak]

My mobo and chip fried a few months ago and I bought some budget replacements to get me by until I had a little more cash to spring for an upgraded proc.

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8U Socket 754 ULi M1689 mobo and a Sempron 64 3000+ proc as of now.

I have no desire to have a high end machine anymore, I went through that with my previous setup and it turned out way too expensive. I think my motherboard is fine, even though it's dated with AGP, socket 754, and no dual channel.

I have also set aside my 6800 vid card for a more cool, less space approach with an EVGA 6200.

This is the proc I am looking at, it's still a budget proc, but I want to ask opinions from fellow members of this great forum how much of a performence increase this will have compared to my current Sempron.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRa...82E16819103483

[turtile]

That CPU will be much faster than what you currently have.

[ohGrFreak]

I'm hoping for an increase in dvd encoding via nero and dvd shrink. When you say "much" faster, I'm thinking it will be a noticable increase.

[hmammen]

you should see a noticable speed difference in load times and such. i upgraded from a 2800 sempron to a athlon 3000 and it cut my load times in half for OS, games, and apps.

[ohGrFreak]

i saw the newcastle and the venice cores of the same chip are the same price on newegg.

what's the difference between the two, does one run better than the other?

[SHAWN]

Venice is a better core

[ohGrFreak]

thanks, by the way, i still have that P4P 800E Deluxe with the 3.2 P4 chip for ya. It's still packed and I'm moving again soon, but I'm still holding onto it for you until I can ship it.

[SHAWN]

Cool, just hit me up on a PM whenever. I am around.