Until recently I believed that upgrading my heavily propritary Dell Dimension 8200 would be too expensive and much trouble, but I've learned that I can upgrade my P4 2.0 processor 400FSB all the way up to a 3.06 533FSB. Now the 3.06 upgrade would require a special non supported BIOS flash to enable Hyper-threading on my mobo, so I'm skipping that option and going with the 2.8 which doesn't require HT.
I'm getting the new chip for about $180(it would be another
$40-50 for the 3.06). I'll think going from 2.0 to 2.8 and 400 to 533FSB will be worth it, but of course I think that or I wouldn't be doing it.
What do you think about the difference I'll see?
I also have 512MG RDRAM, a GeForce 4400ti, and a SB Live.