CPU Upgrade

drich290195 · 23 Apr 2007 at 18:17

Will be updating my Pentium 3 733mhz system tommorow, to a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor. Question is what percentage increase will i gain over the old chip. Sorry im a Noob lol.

Zefan · 23 Apr 2007 at 18:19

Really it's far too large to actually measure. It totally depends what you're doing, probably 500-1000% higher in most things.

hp7909 · 23 Apr 2007 at 18:22

A PIII

Well over 500% IMHO

drich290195 · 23 Apr 2007 at 18:26

Yeah just stuck in the stoneage here it is even slow web browsing some times, i am using Xp

Cupra · 23 Apr 2007 at 18:49

how much have you got to spend?

drich290195 · 23 Apr 2007 at 19:15

well already got the chip, so it looks like a cheapish motherboard and ram hoping a budget upgrade should give me better performance