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Answer» IM pretty good with computers , the only thing that lets me down is noticing speed with certain cpu's. Ive gone from P4's to Dual cores without noticing any major difference in speed. But now im going for the ultimate upgrade a core 2 quad. Now for me that's a pretty big upgrade here's the cpu Intel Q8200 Core 2 Quad S775 4MB 2.33GHz 1333FSB http://www.dabs.com/products/intel-q8200-core-2-quad-s775-4mb-2-33ghz-1333fsb-57Y3.html?refs=44250000 Now i want to know will i 100% see the difference in gaming? Application speeds? and so on. My current cpu is pentium(R) Dual-core E5200 @ 2.50GHZ. Please give me a detailed answer , thankswell from P4 to dial core, you probably didn't notice major difference in speed because you didn't do any real heavy duty multitasking. You're gonna see most difference in dual Core processors when you do a lot of mltitasking. So playing a dvd on your pc and burning a dvd on your pc simultaneously would no longer be so much of a processor strain with dual core. Yeah applications and games may start up faster but I don't really see much of a difference, say if you had a single core and a dual core at same speeds if you're not doing that MANY things at once.If you multitask a lot and/or the games are multithreaded, you'll see a difference. Single threaded apps though will see a slight drop in performance going to that CPU, as the clock speed is lower.If you dont see a difference from a single core to a dual core, I would say just to not upgrade. You will see less framerates in games and everything that only uses 1 or 2 threads will not perform as good. Basically, if you want to upgrade, get a faster dual core.Quote from: computeruler on May 30, 2009, 12:26:15 PM If you dont see a difference from a single core to a dual core, I would say just to not upgrade. You will see less framerates in games and everything that only uses 1 or 2 threads will not perform as good. Basically, if you want to upgrade, get a faster dual core. I have an athlon64 3500+ single core processor, I really doubt that upgrading to dual core processor would help at all except that maybe applications would start up faster or maybe you'll save few more seconds upon pc bootup. If you're trying to burn a DVD video and play a video game at the same time, maybe dual core would help so that the DVD burning process doesn't eat up all the CPU and cause your computer game to lag as a result.If we're talking personal experiences, I noticed a huge difference from a single core to dual, and when I used a friend's quad I felt the same difference. App startup and boot time is mainly about the speed of your storage and your optimisations - a bloated OS with lots of startup items with a slow HDD will not start as fast as a slimmed down OS with a blazing fast RAID array or an SSD, that's common sense. Dual core CPUs, as with any CPU upgrade, will only help you if the bottleneck in performance is your CPU.Quote from: Calum on May 31, 2009, 01:46:01 AM If we're talking personal experiences, I noticed a huge difference from a single core to dual, and when I used a friend's quad I felt the same difference. I've got a nVidia 9500GT in my system too, there's no bottlenecking from the CPU would there be? Only problem I would have is if I try burning a dvd and when it hsas to encode, it would hack up the CPU usage, which is to be expected then other things seem to be slow. Else I'm good.A 9500GT would not be bottlenecked by your processor. In this CASE though, your CPU is the bottleneck, which is what I'm trying to say. DIFFERENT situations means you'll have different bottlenecks, in your case because you only have one core it's tied up with encoding and thus everything else will run SLOWER. With a faster CPU the encoding would be done faster, with a dual core CPU it would be done much faster and you'd have more performance for other tasks at the same time. So, in you case, a CPU upgrade would help for that specific task, although it may not be all that feasible to do. Does that make sense? Not sure if I'm getting my point across in the way I mean to.What's a bottleneck ? ?http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=define%3Abottleneck&btnG=Google+Search |
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