Wow, things HAVE changed!!!

[wacjac]

Hi folks,

I used to frequent these parts daily many years ago when I used to build machines by the boatload. In the 4 or 5 year since I last looked into hardware I'm STUNNED at just how much things have progressed.... all of these new socket types/ quad this - dual that, and I'm kinda lost for my upcoming upgrade.

First things first though.... In a million years I 'aint moving over to Vista - I despise it with a passion, I truly do!! So whatever I do I must be able to use my XP Pro... will this cause me any slowdown or problems with a decent upgrade.....

I'm considering (I'm only doing a mobo, processor and ram upgrade, the rest is all OK)

1) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

2) ASUS P5Q SE iP45 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

3) OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2

Does this all look OK to you up-to-date-knowledgable-folk??

 

[wacjac]

what will ur uses for the system be?

No gaming at all... just graphics and video editing/ decoding. It can currently take my machine an hour to decode an MPG d/l movie to ISO... I'm hoping that a quad core will make a significant improvement?

 

[wacjac]

Using the correct multithreaded software and you will see a HUGE improvement!

...ahhh.... so there's software required then?

 

[wacjac]

XP is completely out of date now, why not get a single core CPU while you're there?

I've had a few minutes playing around with Vista about three or four times now... from what I've seen it bares no resembalance at all to XP.... in fact it was like being in a fairytale...wishy, washy, floaty etc... no doubt I'd get used to it...but for now I'm sticking with XP (this is from a bloke who is always about 5 years behind a new O/S!!)