Upgrade to Core 2 Duo

[RealPhire]

I was thinking about upgrading from my AMD 3500+ Socket 939 Proc

To a Core 2 Duo E6600...

The upgrade will probably cost anywhere from 400-700 dollars depending on how much used parts I can sell on eBay...

Do you think the upgrade would be worth it and if so how much better my computer would run?

Corsiar XMS 2GB 2x1GB
Core 2 Duo E6600
ASUS Mobo

Upgrade Specs

 

[RealPhire]

It depends on what you use the PC for.

If you run like Photoshop and DVD encoding, then it's a worthy upgrade.

If you don't really need an upgrade, just stick to what you have, it still can do pretty much everything you want it to.

I do both of those things often, but I do still lag often and games and I am almost 100% positive the bottleneck is my CPU because I have an

ATI X1900XTX 2GB

4x512MB Corsair XMS 2-2-2-5 2.75v ram

and this CPU so...

 

[RealPhire]

It's not really the CPU. It won't even bottleneck a G80.

You will see a noticeable improvement in tasks like Photoshop, and work like that. In gaming you probably won't notice an improvement.

I'm not sure what you mean by G80 and no gaming improvement

 

[TrojanHorse]

Hey Real,
I was thinking the same with almost same configuration. I have Athlon 64 3000+ running with Asus K8N-E mobo with 1 gig RAM, but I am happy with this for my day to day use plus occasional blasting away both friends & foes in some of my fav games. :lol:

I would say, wait a little longer until the price drops down.

 

[RealPhire]

Hey Real,
I was thinking the same with almost same configuration. I have Athlon 64 3000+ running with Asus K8N-E mobo with 1 gig RAM, but I am happy with this for my day to day use plus occasional blasting away both friends & foes in some of my fav games. :lol:

I would say, wait a little longer until the price drops down.

I'll do that thx