I built the system below two years ago and stopped paying attention to hardware. In the past year I've ceased gaming and now find myself editing and rendering video more than "frequently," which is unfortunately far more demanding than gaming was. Yesterday I pushed my peak memory consumption to ~2.45GB with a full suite of editing apps, thereby consuming my futureproof 2GB's of RAM. But 4GB's of DDR isn't an option and it would be overkill for me 95% of the time.
Still, I could use a speed boost; rendering anything obviously kills performance with only one core. I'd like to get at least another year out of the machine, so would a dual core Opteron 165 be a worthy upgrade in the mean time?
Asus A8N-E 2.0 w/Zalman ZM-NB47J
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
Thermalright XP-90 w/Panaflo L1BX
Corsair 2x1GB TWINX2048-3200C2PT
Radeon X800 XL 256MB w/Zalman VF700-AlCu @5V
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Western Digital 74GB Raptor (8mb cache)
Samsung 500GB HD501LJ
Still, I could use a speed boost; rendering anything obviously kills performance with only one core. I'd like to get at least another year out of the machine, so would a dual core Opteron 165 be a worthy upgrade in the mean time?
Asus A8N-E 2.0 w/Zalman ZM-NB47J
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
Thermalright XP-90 w/Panaflo L1BX
Corsair 2x1GB TWINX2048-3200C2PT
Radeon X800 XL 256MB w/Zalman VF700-AlCu @5V
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Western Digital 74GB Raptor (8mb cache)
Samsung 500GB HD501LJ