will a atom dual core 330 upgrade be good enough?

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I have a spare pc with an atom 330 which i might use to replace my mums aging socket a amd 3000 pc.

The atom pc also has two gig of faster ram and i could put win 7 on there.

Current pc is used for internet, music and documents.

Would it be an improvement?
 
I doubt the atom would be powerful to run win7 as your only computer. It is a little slow when running ubuntu at times, but is perfect for home servers/media servers where CPU speed is usually not the limiting factor. I would consider heading down the cheapest intel core 2 duo or cheap AMD chips.
 
I use mine for internet browsing and HTP and it runs W7 fine....However I dont think it would be any good at all if you start running application.

I have overcloked mine to 2.2ghz and did a superpi 1m test and man did I chuckle at the speed....1m 10s. Considering my P4 3.4 northwood would do the same test in I think about 41 seconds goes to show how slow the cpu is! but for browsing music and films its ok
 
I built a mITX atom 330 with ION for my other half to use. We're still on XP, but she reports a slowdown only when she has illustrator and/or photoshop open with skype, multiple IEs, and outlook all going at once.
The socket A athlon is a single core, so one main task will kill its ability to keep up with the atom; 4 threads keeps it all nice and kosher multitasking, although in terms of raw computing power, it will probably loose out.
One of the nicest things about the atom is the ability to run it with very little energy- I think the atom/ion system will consume probably 1/3 less power than the athlon, at least.
 
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