Should I Upgrade my mainboard or my processor? Which is faster? i have 915 chip and lga 3.0 full cache process

Question

i have an intel 915 chipset and i am willing to upgrade to 945 chipset and i have a 3.0 processor and i am willing to upgrade to 3.2, but i either upgrade my mainboard or my processor, so which one will give me better performance? which one shall i upgrade, mainboard or processor?

Answer 1

Both upgrades that you described will do very little for you. I hardly understand your desire to just upgrade the CPU by 200MHz, but I don't understand your intention of upgrading to a 945 chipset at all. Doing so will have little or no impact. All that gives you is access to the dual-core Pentium Ds, DDR-667MHz, and RAID 3.0MB/s.

Instead, I would wait until you can afford to upgrade all of the following at the same time:
- Motherboard (get a chipset like P965 that supports the new Core 2 Duo)
- RAM (depends on the motherboard you get, but you will likely be upgrading it to 800MHz DDR-II)
- CPU (Go with a much higher rated Pentium D, or wait it out a bit and buy any of the Core 2 Duo CPUs. Even the slowest one knocks the socks off the fastest Pentium D)

This link will show you a list of the chipsets available from Intel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets

Answer 2

Have to agree with the previoius post, the only real point of upgrading to a better mainboard is to be able to upgrade to a better processor and better other parts, really no point in JUST upgrading the mainboard. 200 Mhz of an upgrade is really meaningless, and in fact upgrading to a 2.8 Dual Core will give you significant improvement, remember pure clock speed is not the only think to look at in processors.

Answer 3

processor