Upgrade Asus A8V Deluxe to Asus M2N SLi Deluxe worth it?
Bookmark this page:
 Yahoo!
 Google
 Windows Live
 del.icio.us
 digg
 Netscape
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by brother on October 24, 2007, 4:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'm seriously considering upgrading my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard for the ASUS M2N SLi Deluxe. The trouble is I will have to upgrade the RAM, graphics card and the CPU! (I have a 2x 4600 SOCKET 939 but I would like to go for a 2x6000 AMD2). I mainly use my pc for photo editing. I am running Vista Premium but use a lot of hefty programs : Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc.... My pc is working fine, but not as fast as I would like The RAM, motherboard, graphics card and CPU would be probably be over £300... Is it worth it? I know that future upgrades would be more viable... but? | ||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by Michael Hawes on October 24, 2007, 4:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options You should have 3Gb with those applications. The new CPU would be about 30% faster. What video card do you have?, You may be able to improve performance with a new AGP card. If you need max speed, you should go Intel, the Core2 Duo is a great overclocker and will beat the present AMDs. Mike. | ||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by brother on October 24, 2007, 5:56 pm
Please log in for more thread options brother wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm seriously considering upgrading my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard > for the ASUS M2N SLi Deluxe. > The trouble is I will have to upgrade the RAM, graphics card and the > CPU! (I have a 2x 4600 SOCKET 939 but I would like to go for a 2x6000 > AMD2). > I mainly use my pc for photo editing. I am running Vista Premium but use > a lot of hefty programs : Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc.... > My pc is working fine, but not as fast as I would like > > The RAM, motherboard, graphics card and CPU would be probably be over > £300... > Is it worth it? > I know that future upgrades would be more viable... but? I forgot to mention that my graphics card is a NVIDIA GeFORCE 7600 GS | ||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by kony on October 25, 2007, 8:07 am
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:56:46 +0100, brother
>brother wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm seriously considering upgrading my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard >> for the ASUS M2N SLi Deluxe. >> The trouble is I will have to upgrade the RAM, graphics card and the >> CPU! (I have a 2x 4600 SOCKET 939 but I would like to go for a 2x6000 >> AMD2). >> I mainly use my pc for photo editing. I am running Vista Premium but use >> a lot of hefty programs : Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc.... >> My pc is working fine, but not as fast as I would like >> >> The RAM, motherboard, graphics card and CPU would be probably be over >> £300... >> Is it worth it? >> I know that future upgrades would be more viable... but? >
>I forgot to mention that my graphics card is a NVIDIA GeFORCE 7600 GS Video card is not a factor in this use, until 3D gaming. You wrote the opening post as if you're replacing a motherboard for a performance gain but would have hoped to use same CPU and memory if possible... which would be practically no performance gain at all. If you want to go cheap, I suggest you get a current gen dual-core Athlon for skt 939 (and overclock it a bit if desired, they tend to reach about 3GHz fairly easily). Otherwise, it is more cost effective to move to Core2 or Quad Duo platform (board/CPU, still DDR2 memory). Another significant upgrade would be to run WinXP instead of Vista. | ||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by Brett Kline on October 25, 2007, 8:20 am
Please log in for more thread options brother wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm seriously considering upgrading my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard > for the ASUS M2N SLi Deluxe. > The trouble is I will have to upgrade the RAM, graphics card and the > CPU! (I have a 2x 4600 SOCKET 939 but I would like to go for a 2x6000 > AMD2). > I mainly use my pc for photo editing. I am running Vista Premium but How much RAM is installed and how many modules ? Is it PC3200 or other ? Reverting to Windows XP would be a performance improvement. > use a lot of hefty programs : Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw
> etc.... My pc is working fine, but not as fast as I would like > > The RAM, motherboard, graphics card and CPU would be probably be over > £300... > Is it worth it? > I know that future upgrades would be more viable... but? The upgrade you propose offers very little over your current setup. Mildly over clocking your current system will provide X2 6000+ performance for little or no cost. | ||||||||||||||||
| Similar Threads | Posted |
| Upgrade Asus A8V Deluxe to Asus M2N SLi Deluxe worth it? | October 24, 2007, 4:04 pm |
| Asus A8N-SLI Premium Vs. Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe | May 24, 2006, 12:10 am |
| Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe | April 11, 2006, 5:52 pm |
| Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Problem | November 11, 2006, 8:06 am |
| ASUS A8V-E Deluxe + Ati X850XT PE | November 24, 2006, 6:05 am |
| Asus A8V-E Deluxe Memory Issues | April 16, 2005, 2:09 am |
| USB Boot problem on Asus K7V Deluxe | June 5, 2005, 12:15 am |
| Fastest cpu for Asus A7N8X Deluxe m/b? | February 4, 2007, 7:13 am |
| Asus P5GDC Deluxe with RAID1 | March 9, 2006, 3:09 pm |
| Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Ethernet Controller | December 17, 2005, 11:10 am |
| P4C800-E Deluxe and ATA133 RAID | March 7, 2006, 2:02 pm |
| Re: Is it Worth the Upgrade | January 23, 2007, 7:51 pm |
| Re: Is it Worth the Upgrade | January 23, 2007, 7:58 pm |
| Asus M2N-E and Vi$ta x64 | October 25, 2007, 4:43 am |
| Asus p4gd1 in the UK | March 15, 2005, 4:23 pm |
> I'm seriously considering upgrading my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard
> for the ASUS M2N SLi Deluxe.
> The trouble is I will have to upgrade the RAM, graphics card and the CPU!
> (I have a 2x 4600 SOCKET 939 but I would like to go for a 2x6000 AMD2).
> I mainly use my pc for photo editing. I am running Vista Premium but use a
> lot of hefty programs : Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc....
> My pc is working fine, but not as fast as I would like
>
> The RAM, motherboard, graphics card and CPU would be probably be over
> £300...
> Is it worth it?
> I know that future upgrades would be more viable... but?