Pentium 4 2.8HT vs Core 2 Duo E6400

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Hi there guys.

Could you please give me some advise. This is the specs of my current Desktop PC:

Pentium 4 2.8HT
MSI™ 865PE Neo 2
2 x 512MB DDR - 400
Geforce 4 440MX (I don't do gaming);)
320GB SATA2 HD

Will the following hardware be a big inprovement in performance:

Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Lemont P965
1 x 1024MB DDR2 - 800
Entry Level PCI-E Graphics Card (Don't know what)
320GB SATA2 HD

Please give me your opinion. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks guys.
 
Piesang said:
Hi there guys.

Could you please give me some advise. This is the specs of my current Desktop PC:

Pentium 4 2.8HT
MSI™ 865PE Neo 2
2 x 512MB DDR - 400
Geforce 4 440MX (I don't do gaming);)
320GB SATA2 HD

Will the following hardware be a big inprovement in performance:

Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Lemont P965
1 x 1024MB DDR2 - 800
Entry Level PCI-E Graphics Card (Don't know what)
320GB SATA2 HD

Please give me your opinion. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks guys.
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Will definitely be a HUGE improvement, but can I suggest that you up your RAM to 2GB? Then you're ready for Vista as well. ;)

Also, just hang in there for a little while, DX10 midstream graphics cards will start surfacing soon...
 
Dual core machines are great. I have been encoding video for the last couple of days and it flies along. Having the two cores allows the machine to carry on with the encoding while you do other work.Could never do that on my single core machine, even though the clock speed was higher. With this kind of work (video or photography)the bottleneck tends to be the HDD so spend extra there if you do that kind of work.
 
Thanks guys. It looks like it's not a bad idea to get the Core 2 Duo. When do you think the new Directx 10 compatible Gfx cards will be available? I just want a entry level card as I don't use my PC for gaming at all.
 
piesang do not buy an intel board my bru!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if your not going to overclock buy intel, if you would like to even clock your cpu slightly do not buy intel boards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why would u want a vga card if you not going to play games?

onboard will be fine
 
Piesang said:
Hi there guys.

Could you please give me some advise. This is the specs of my current Desktop PC:

Pentium 4 2.8HT
MSI™ 865PE Neo 2
2 x 512MB DDR - 400
Geforce 4 440MX (I don't do gaming);)
320GB SATA2 HD

Will the following hardware be a big inprovement in performance:

Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Lemont P965
1 x 1024MB DDR2 - 800
Entry Level PCI-E Graphics Card (Don't know what)
320GB SATA2 HD

Please give me your opinion. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks guys.
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What do you want to do with your PC?
It's not games then what?
CAD/CAE?
Photo editing?
Video editing and rendering?
Spreadsheet and Word processing?
Email and Surfing?

If it's the last two, don't bother. If you're going to be doing lots of
editing in PS, upgrade. If you're only going to do family photos
(scan, remove scratches and archive) then don't bother either.
 
The improvement will be more in some areas, and less in others. If you're just working in Excell all day, why bother? But as some of the other posters have mentioned, overall you'll see an improvement. I agree that an onboard VGA will be fine, unless you are doing 3D rendering, or some video editing and encoding ... if you just use it to surf the web, do some Word/Excell work etc. Don't waste the money! For work that requires heavy CPU work, DEFFINATELY. Also remeber the newer 65nm CPU's like all the Core 2 Duo's use less energy/watts, and therefore save electricity, especially when on for extended periods! But other factors also influence energy, if you go for a 7 series graphics card, it will chow more watts than your older card ...

It's all relative!
 
I'm using my PC for Studio Work. Mainly multitrack audio recordings. And every now and then I do some DVD decryption etc...

No games.

And then the usual Office applications and internet.
 
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