3.0E or 3.0C

[2dogs_brew]

OK, Here is the deal. I am thinking of upgrading my computer. I currently have a P4 1.9 and want to upgrade to a 3.0 as the price jump to 3.2 is a little hard for me to handle. I use my computer mainly for recording, edititing, and mixing music and could really use the upgrade. I am also upgrading from 528 of PC2100 to 2 sticks of 528 PC3200. So my question is what processor to go with. The price differance is only about 50 cents right now and the 3.0E does have more cache but I have heard of heat problems and other things.

Do you think that the heat issues can be overcome without having to put a noisy HSF in?

Will I really get much of a preformance boost for my use with the 3.0E over the 3.0C?

Thanks

[Cricket]

Does your current motherboard support the Prescott P4s or do you need to upgrade that too?

I think benchmarks have shown that current Precotts underperform against equivalent Northwoods...so the 3.0C might be the better processor.

Cricket

[RJ]

Even the 3.0C requires that you have a motherboard that supports the 800 MHz FSB. Otherwise it won't run at 3 GHz.

So, what mainboard do you have ?

RJ

[2dogs_brew]

I upgraded it to an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe MB a while back so that I could do this upgrade when I had the cash.
My old MB went by by about a year a go

[glc]

In that case, get the 3.0C. The Prescott just isn't working right in Socket 478 form without some fiddling - and running it stock, it performs no better than a Northwood, and the Northwood will run a lot cooler. You would need faster ram than PC3200 to overclock either processor anyway without running the ram asynchronous, which will hurt performance.

[2dogs_brew]

I was wondering about the ram speed. So you mean that I could put faster ram in and it would still work? I was wondering about why they had faster ram when buss speeds were at 800.

Thanks agian