Worth the upgrade.

Alrighty, so I've been holding off on upgrading to 64bit, but I'm thinking since Vista will be out sometime next year, that I may take the plunge. I already know there is no chance of me getting anything better than a socket 754 board, and I'm looking at the eVga nForce 3 250GB and a socket 754 Athlon 64 2800. I'm going to go ahead this week or next week and order an eVGA AGP GeForce 6600GT, which saddens me because I'm a total ATi guy. I should be able to sell my current mobo and cpu and heatsink, for about 120 bucks to a friend of mine who has been bugging me for it. So within the next 6 weeks I'd be looking to do it, and spend roughly 60-70 bucks out of pocket. Also have a friend who I can trade RAM with since he has the single 512MB stick of the exact same stuff I have, only I have the dual channel 2x256MB set. So it'll help us both out since his board has dual channel and the eVGA board doesn't, not to mention only having 2 RAM slots. Wat I want to know is 3 things. 1)How well does the 2800 oc with stock cooling. 2)Does anyone have any experience with this VGA Board? and 3)Do you guys think it's worth it to upgrade? I love DFI and ATi, but I'm just gonna have to let go of brand loyalty for a lower price this once. Thanks for your imput guys, have a good day.

 

If you're gonna upgrade to a 64bit AMD I would go for at least the 3200 otherwise you won't notice much difference. The 6600GT is a nice card and will perform well ( yes I'm an ATI guy too but see it as a good card!)
Don't know about that board so can't help sorry, but I think if you're going to upgrade, get a higher spec cpu, it'll be worth it.

 

So you guys really don't think it's worth 60 bucks for all that? I mean c'mon? 60 bucks for the mobo and cpu out of my pocket. It's not just for the purpouse of Vista, I remember when the requirements for longhorn was like 64MB of RAM and a 180MHZ cpu, so yeah I'm not counting on anything.lol. I imagine all of my pc's are gonna do fine with longhorn though. It's moreso just feeling kinda outdated. How hard would it be to oc that 2800 to a 3200? If you'll notice my sig thats what I did with this pc and it runs a little faster than my friends real 3200. So I was actually thinking that would be my option. Thanks for the input still guys and keep it coming.