I won't have the money for a new system for the foreseeable future, but I noticed my 5 year old motherboard (socket 939) supports the AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ 2.4 GHZ processor, which I've seen online at prices in the $50 - $75 range. This could be within the realm of possibility in the near future, but I'm not sure if it would be significant enough of an upgrade from my current AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHZ processor. Would it help me drop my interface latency by any noticeable degree?
Is this upgrade a notion I should entertain or should I just forget about it and wait until I have money for a whole new system?
EDIT: I should mention that my current processor is a single core, the new one would be dual core. Not sure if that makes any difference.
Oh, and I have 2 gigs of ddr ram at 167 mhz.
Is this upgrade a notion I should entertain or should I just forget about it and wait until I have money for a whole new system?
EDIT: I should mention that my current processor is a single core, the new one would be dual core. Not sure if that makes any difference.
Oh, and I have 2 gigs of ddr ram at 167 mhz.