Will my motherboard support a P4?

[Jack6]

Hi,

I want to improve my PC and make it a lot faster especially for gaming. Currently I have an Intel Celeron D 2.8Ghz and I believe that upgrading it to a Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz will be a big performance boost. Will it be worth the money?

Also I am not sure if it will work on my motherboard. I think they are the same socket type (LGA 775) so they should be compatible.

Motherboard: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... c28512&P=1 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?mbb-c28512&P=1) (Foxconn 661FX7MI)
Current Processor: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... -c4336&P=1 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?il-c4336&P=1)
P4 Processor: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... IL-PP73064 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?IL-PP73064)

Will that P4 processor be the best upgrade for my money? thanks

[JDowdall]

what price bracket do you have and its best to follow the rule with processors, if you cant afford an intel core 2 duo go with an AMD (probably the best AMD processor before core 2 duo is the athlon x3800+ which is dual core)

[illusionalSin]

Doubt it will improve much!!!! Buying more ram or upgrading graphics will do the trick. My personal opinion is not to upgrade processor unless you really really want to. I have a P4 3.0ghz and to be honest, I had a sempron 2800 and saw no difference between the two in performance for games anyway. Maybe for converting music/videos it might do increase performance.