OK current rig is in sig.
Now with the recent massive price drops I'm running out of excuses not to upgrade. Clearly, I could pick up a decent A64 [probably the 3700+] or x2 [probably the 3800+] for $100-150, mobo probably another $100 or so. I'd have to wrestle around on the video card issue but even if I capped myself at $150-200 there I'd be inline for a semi-decent card like a 7600gt or x1800gto.
My question here regards my current memory. I have hyper-x pc3000. The sticks however are the imfamous bh-5 variety. In my four year old kt333 mobo [Epox 8K3A] they can run 220FSB/440DDR at 2-2-2-5-1T timings on 3v. Now obviously, if I made this upgrade I'd be wanting/needing to reach speeds over 250FSB. Can the bh-5 approach those kids of speeds with enough voltage and more relaxed timings; something in the 3-4-4-8 2T neighborhood or whatever the mobo would allow?
Or do I have to bit the bullet on new ram as well? The sticks above are just 512 sticks so I only have 1GB versus the 2GB that seems to becoming standard.
Now with the recent massive price drops I'm running out of excuses not to upgrade. Clearly, I could pick up a decent A64 [probably the 3700+] or x2 [probably the 3800+] for $100-150, mobo probably another $100 or so. I'd have to wrestle around on the video card issue but even if I capped myself at $150-200 there I'd be inline for a semi-decent card like a 7600gt or x1800gto.
My question here regards my current memory. I have hyper-x pc3000. The sticks however are the imfamous bh-5 variety. In my four year old kt333 mobo [Epox 8K3A] they can run 220FSB/440DDR at 2-2-2-5-1T timings on 3v. Now obviously, if I made this upgrade I'd be wanting/needing to reach speeds over 250FSB. Can the bh-5 approach those kids of speeds with enough voltage and more relaxed timings; something in the 3-4-4-8 2T neighborhood or whatever the mobo would allow?
Or do I have to bit the bullet on new ram as well? The sticks above are just 512 sticks so I only have 1GB versus the 2GB that seems to becoming standard.