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Upgrading from AXP @ 2400 Mhz

These benchmarks might help you a little. I just moved from a 2.2GHz Barton to a x2 3800 @ 2.4GHz, using the same RAM (1Gb Corsair LL) and AGP vid card (X800Pro flashed to XT). The earth did not move for me, though I did get a very useful upgrade in FPS in the flight sim I fly most. That was down to the shift to 64-bit architecture though, not the spare core, which mainly sits there picking its nose and staring into space.

If I was buying again tomorrow I'd get a faster single core CPU, no doubt about it. With dual core you have twice as many chances of it not being stable when overclocked, and the benefits are exaggerated. In the future it may be very useful, but tomorrow's a big place.

http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mcpbench22ko.jpg

Andrew McP
 
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