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4850e to Tri Core 720
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The tricore will be significantly better at encoding, though still rather behind intel I'm afraid.
Multitasking needs to be defined really. Are you finding that the computer gets steadily slower as you ask it to do more things at once past a certain point, or are you deliberately loading entire cores?
If it's the former, then check your ram. If you're running low, that's the point to upgrade. If not, it's hard drive or processor that's holding you back. % processor used when running slowly is good for this, on xp hit ctrl-alt-delete then minimise it, you get a little box in the bottom right corner which goes all green if the processor is fully loaded i.e. limiting you.
The F1 hard drives are about as quick as any you can get, so you can be fairly sure it's the processor causing issues. Whether it's raw clock speed or number of cores you need depends on use. For gentle multitasking, say office + firefox + antivirus scan + media player, a faster dual core is the answer. Once you manage to put significant workload on it, multicore pulls ahead. For example, if I wish to run debian, ubuntu and xp simultaneously, a dual core is having none of it but a quad is just fine.
I suspect its raw clockspeed you'll feel the most, which suggests overclocking rather than an extra core
Multitasking needs to be defined really. Are you finding that the computer gets steadily slower as you ask it to do more things at once past a certain point, or are you deliberately loading entire cores?
If it's the former, then check your ram. If you're running low, that's the point to upgrade. If not, it's hard drive or processor that's holding you back. % processor used when running slowly is good for this, on xp hit ctrl-alt-delete then minimise it, you get a little box in the bottom right corner which goes all green if the processor is fully loaded i.e. limiting you.
The F1 hard drives are about as quick as any you can get, so you can be fairly sure it's the processor causing issues. Whether it's raw clock speed or number of cores you need depends on use. For gentle multitasking, say office + firefox + antivirus scan + media player, a faster dual core is the answer. Once you manage to put significant workload on it, multicore pulls ahead. For example, if I wish to run debian, ubuntu and xp simultaneously, a dual core is having none of it but a quad is just fine.
I suspect its raw clockspeed you'll feel the most, which suggests overclocking rather than an extra core
I went from a 4200+ to a 720be in my HTPC & the differnce was night & day.
You will need to flash the mobos bios, I have the same mobo & Q-flash made it very easy.
The main reason for my upgrade is i wanted to play games so threw in a 4850.
This gave me some decent fps but at times my fps did fluxuate however with the 720 I have a constant & higher fps.
Also I burn quite a few dvds on it & do some light, video editing & this is 1000% quicker.
You will need to flash the mobos bios, I have the same mobo & Q-flash made it very easy.
The main reason for my upgrade is i wanted to play games so threw in a 4850.
This gave me some decent fps but at times my fps did fluxuate however with the 720 I have a constant & higher fps.
Also I burn quite a few dvds on it & do some light, video editing & this is 1000% quicker.
Could you give me abit more advice pls m8,,,,
I haven't ordered any cpu yet because am still unsure..
My pc is terrible slow when trying to multi task, I have had nero vision, several messenger windows open. foobar, Yahoo messenger as well as my AV, spyware and firewall progs running..
I gave up on Nero Vision because got fed up of waiting...
Am running the 4850e, 4GB kingston 800MHZ..
If I can't get this sorted am thinking of upgrading to a VR and Quad again...
Really miss my Q6600, Raptor setup.....
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I would never go back to dual core now, even simple multitasking such as alt tabbing out of bf2 and scrolling down a webpage i can notice a massive difference, with the same amount of ram as before (with slower timings too) even though the dual core was 600mhz per core faster than my current quadcore clock.
This may or may not be to do with cache though, ie 12mb vs 2mb.
This may or may not be to do with cache though, ie 12mb vs 2mb.