MAMEWorld Forums - Hardware - Re: Comparison help

> Hey guys. Gonna upgrade my PC board soon and while I believe I'm asking a glaring
> obvious question, I just wanna check that this CPU will be better and faster over my
> current one.
>
> I did a compare here: http://ark.intel.com/compare/27462,27248
>
> So despite the fact the C2D is slightly above half the speed of my current one, will
> it be noticably faster?

You will see a good drop in temps (especially idle temp) and a tiny boost in performance. I know because I did a very similar "upgrade" recently.

Consider the Pentium E6700 (not the older Core 2 Duo E6700) if you want a cheap and fast CPU for your Socket 775 board. Raw performance should be about three times that of your your P4. The E6700 is available on Amazon for ~85 dollars.

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