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Would this be worth it?

Curio

Curio

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My wife currently has a P4 3.0GHz Prescot. She mainly uses her machine for design work (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc) and does multitask quite a bit. Doesn't game too much - mainly Sims2, Spore, etc.

Now I have an old AMD X2 3800 sitting here. Would it be worth getting a cheapish mobo and switching her over to this chip? Obviously, multitasking would be better - but what about in terms of pure speed of Photoshop rendering?

Worth the time, effort and money? Can't afford to do a proper upgrade for the foreseeable future.

Thanks!
 
well ask her if the computer she is using now is holding her back? i mean if shes just using photoshop to draw stick men , then multi cpu support or not it , it wont matter to her .

just make sure your time and effort doing this for her will actually be noticed , she might not even be maxing out the p4.
 
Multi tasking of any kind within windows should show a boost with the second core.

That was the most marked improvement i saw when i moved from a standard A64 to an X2... windows seemed far more responsive to opening new pages, new programs and doing many things at once.

I do tend to agree with what Dogoid says though and it may be worth asking her if she's held back by it. However, i'd probably just do it as the benefits IMHO do outway the relatively limited workload of setting up a new PC.

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I am a huge photoshop boff because i have to do it day in day out at uni and i went from a 3.2 p4 to a 2.4 q6600 and the differance is huge. MASSIVE!
 
While intel may be the chip of choice at the minute during the p4 time that wasn't the case so saying stick with intel in this case is wrong.
 
It would be worth the move from a 3ghz Prescott to the X2 3800, is it DDR in the P4 setup? If all you needed was a motherboard then it'd be a good move. :)
 
Thanks

I forgot to mention - yeah, she does moan at the performance of the P4. I look over and she's got 10 apps running :o

Also, would just need the mobo - RAM is fine.

Guess I'll do it.
 
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