PII 940 to 1075 - 1100T

[RumpRoast]

Hey guys, starting to get the itch to upgrade again. I'm currently running an ASUS M4A785-M with a 940BE and DDR2 1066. Seeing that the motherboard supports up to the Thuban 1100T I was wondering if this is a worthwhile upgrade from what i have. The only thing that I'm worried about is my motherboard only supports DDR2 and not sure if it will hinder performance of the new processor.

I mainly use my machine for gaming, surfing the web and wife uses it for Netflix. I just recently upgraded my vidcard from a 9800GTX to a 560GTX, old SATA 320gb drive to a WD Black 1tb and replaced my Tuniq Tower with the Hyper 212+. All this is going into the old machine to breathe new life until I can upgrade from scratch hopefully sometime towards the end of next year when the my financial situation gets better. I'm just trying to make this system stretch til then.

I play BF3, Black Ops and wife started playing Sims 3 again if that helps. Thanks in advance.

 

[Jalidi]

I think it will be a very marginal improvement, although most Thubans clock to 4.0 ghz pretty easily under a 212+. If your 940BE is a C2 Deneb (like my old chip was) you'll oc improvements going to a C3 Deneb (like my current 955BE) as I was able to get another 600 mhz on air. Which is quite noticeable! It still posts and runs benchmarks right up to 4.5 ghz but I need water.

 

[MacLeod]

It would be a pretty decent upgrade. I moved up from a X2 unlocked to an X4 and I got a very noticeable bump in performance in games. My Windows Experience went from 7.4 to 7.6 to for whatever that's worth.

 

[DedEmbryonicCe11]

DDR2 1066 doesn't hold Thuban back enough to warrant the extra money for a new motherboard.

 

[RumpRoast]

Thanks for the responses guys, I was able to pick up a 1090T for $65 on Craigslist so we'll see what kinda performance boost I see from this. Would a bump of my ram from 4 to 8gb help see any further boost? This will basically be a new/old PC as I haven't installed the new vidcard, hd or the Hyper 212+ yet.

 

[OFaceSIG]

Bf3 officially uses a minimum of 6 threads so a 1090t was a good move. Going to 6 or 8gb will big good too because 4gb is the minimum for that game.

 

[Mloot]

I was able to pick up a 1090T for $65 on Craigslist so we'll see what kinda performance boost I see from this.

That's a heck of a deal.

 

[MacLeod]

Bf3 officially uses a minimum of 6 threads so a 1090t was a good move. Going to 6 or 8gb will big good too because 4gb is the minimum for that game.

I dont think so. All the benchies Ive seen show no difference between a 2,4 or 6 core proc. It wont run on a single core of course but 2 cores is all you need for BF3.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-13.html

 

[Tsumi]

I dont think so. All the benchies Ive seen show no difference between a 2,4 or 6 core proc. It wont run on a single core of course but 2 cores is all you need for BF3.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-13.html

That's single player benchmarks. Once you go to massive multiplayer situations, BF3 starts eating up those cores fast.

 

[MacLeod]

Ah good point. Having to deal with 64 other players and changing maps does drive the CPU usage up a good bit. Being a strict single player guy, I always forget about the multiplayer drain on a rig.

 

[RumpRoast]

My 940 with 4gb of ram and the 560 runs BF3 pretty well. I get a slight studder within a few secs of starting the map. After that, it runs pretty smooth with no slowdowns so far. Got the CPU and now waiting on the 8gb ram after Christmas.