would the difference be big?

well.. I am thinking about upgrading my pc a bit.



I am thinking about replacing my CPU< Motherboard and RAM.

AMD X2 s939 4800+

A8N32-SLI

2Gb Kingston HyperX CL2.0



what I am intending on buying is:

Core2Duo E6550

ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi (nForce590 SLI - S775)

PC2-6400 - 1 GBx2 - DDR2 - Corsair TWINX C4



would it make a big difference? (not intending on getting new grafic's cards yet, these work nice still )

i think it would

yes, probably. and what was your GFX?

i mean dont forget an e6600 would outperform a 6000+ so you do the maths

I don't think so. 2.4ghz X2 vs. 2.3Ghz core2 isn't all that big a difference. The cores architecture is superior to that of the X2's but not so much that the 2.3 would be worlds better, I'd even go so far as to say that you won't even notice a difference between the two chips unless you're benchmarking.

The LGA775 motherboard is once again, better on paper but in reality the difference would be null. As for the RAM, well suffice it to say that all the fancy specs on in the world seem to mean little with RAM. Tighter latencies, higher speeds and bandwidth, they sound good but the performance difference is once again missing, unless you're working with apps that very RAM dependent. See here,

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2741&p=9

It's barely an upgrade IMO.

Barely, and the difference is noted in benchmarks only. Real life performance difference is, not surprisingly, very small.

i wouldnt bother tbh Archangel,Maybe at a later date you could go Quad core



your system is already quite nice

it is.. but, I have some issues with it i cant seem to solve



when I run memtest, I get errors when its moving big blocks of data. I changed my RAM because of that, thinking it would solve it then. but its still there, leaving me left to think its the CPU's memory controller (but, i cant be sure )

I mean, its still running, but I am also doing all my school work on it etc, so i dont really feel like it failing at the start of my school year or so.



I would get the stuff from the same shop as I bought the RAM from, and returning the RAM there then. (the DDR2 ram is 50 euro's cheaper even)

its jus,.. I dont know what I should be doing atm. I mean, my pc does have a (minor? since its still running everything etc, but occasionally its acting weird) problem, but it still runs

Hmm. Well The on-die MC could be faulty, But it's seems alittle unlikely.. You are overclocking, it's possible too much voltage could have damaged something. Maybe You should try resetting the CMOS and retesting, to remove the current overclock from being the possible problem.



Gets me thinking. How are you overclocking your RAM? If it's Clock is too high, (or voltage/timings) your RAM will be unstable, which will bring up errors in Memtest86



That system would be a nice replacement if you need to get rid of your current one, I just figured you were upgrading for no real reason, my bad.

Its true that what you'd be getting would be better in terms of performance, but I am questionning myself whether or not the investement would be worth it because you are totally changing the system (mobo and CPU) for system that isn't much of an improvement. Thus, I believe that waiting to upgrade for something that would truly make an improvement in performance would be wiser.



There is one thing I question myself about tho, it appears you are using PC3200 RAM in your current system. Why haven't you chosen some PC6400 ram for this rig when you upgraded. I always thought that AMD's X2 would benefit from DDR2-800.



So, I'd say put the money you intended to invest in this upgrade and wait a bit, maybe until you can purchase a quad core or until some new technology comes out. Afterall, Memtest is just a test and if the system is working fine, then don't bother too much about these results.