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- Thread starter kevo
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the baby core2 eats the top p4
For sure! The baby pentiums eat the P4 (about 60% improvement).
In terms of value, if your current motherboard can use the new CPU's then you would get a dramatic improvement in performance for little outlay of cash.
If you have to splash out for new RAM/Mobo etc, the performance gains will be even better, but the investment required will obviously be more substantial.
Let me quantify my statement. My wife's machine was a P4 2.8 HT with 2GB RAM on a S478 board. Encoding a DVD took around 3 hours. The same encoding (done for benchmarking purposes) now takes less than 40 mins. Likewise a print job to her A3 canon i9950 used to take around 20 mins, it now takes around 3 mins.
Her new machine specs are
Pentium dual core e2160 overclocked to 2.00Ghz
MSI NEO-F motherboard
GeForce 9600 512MB video card
2 GB RAM (DDR2 800MHZ)
Old was
Northwood P4 2.8 O/C to 3GHz (it didnt clock well)
S478 Asus motherboard p4p800 deluxe if I recall correctly.
Geforce 6600 GT 256MB
2 GB DDR-400 RAM
For sure! The baby pentiums eat the P4 (about 60% improvement).
In terms of value, if your current motherboard can use the new CPU's then you would get a dramatic improvement in performance for little outlay of cash.
If you have to splash out for new RAM/Mobo etc, the performance gains will be even better, but the investment required will obviously be more substantial.
Let me quantify my statement. My wife's machine was a P4 2.8 HT with 2GB RAM on a S478 board. Encoding a DVD took around 3 hours. The same encoding (done for benchmarking purposes) now takes less than 40 mins. Likewise a print job to her A3 canon i9950 used to take around 20 mins, it now takes around 3 mins.
Her new machine specs are
Pentium dual core e2160 overclocked to 2.00Ghz
MSI NEO-F motherboard
GeForce 9600 512MB video card
2 GB RAM (DDR2 800MHZ)
Old was
Northwood P4 2.8 O/C to 3GHz (it didnt clock well)
S478 Asus motherboard p4p800 deluxe if I recall correctly.
Geforce 6600 GT 256MB
2 GB DDR-400 RAM
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