prior to my m/b frying, i had a x2 4400 processor with 2 gigs of ddr2. I'm in a situation where i have to get a CPU and a motherboard immediately and i've begun researching what's new. I see all the new AMD phenoms etc and then i began wondering about all my other hardware.
so is it true that even with the latest and greatest m/b and cpu that my old IDE drives are holding me back speedwise (bootup is especially painful even though i'm utilizing 'startup delayer' to hold back unnecessary programs)? If that's true, then ill just stick with the cheaper and 'not so fast' cpus since it wont really benefit me and i have no plans, no money, to upgrade my hard drives. i'm not a heavy gamer and dont need the latest on my old xp machine anyway
so is it true that even with the latest and greatest m/b and cpu that my old IDE drives are holding me back speedwise (bootup is especially painful even though i'm utilizing 'startup delayer' to hold back unnecessary programs)? If that's true, then ill just stick with the cheaper and 'not so fast' cpus since it wont really benefit me and i have no plans, no money, to upgrade my hard drives. i'm not a heavy gamer and dont need the latest on my old xp machine anyway