2012 equivalent of pentium 4 2 8ghz

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Hello,
I run Adobe creative suite on a dell dimension 3100c with a Pentium 4 2.8ghz processor and 2gb ram. Surprisingly it runs very well but it is time to upgrade.
However, I do not have a massive budget is there a chip that is relatively inexpensive but will run Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator well and what motherboard should I put with it?
 

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CPU's have gone a very long way since Pentium4's

Any of today's lowest end cpu is miles ahead of a Pentium 4


It is hard to make a recommendation because I am not sure what your budget is like and I am not sure if you rather buy a name brand, get someone to build it or to build it yourself.


I recommend that you build it yourself or you go to a "microbytes, or any computer only store that builds pc's"

You will want the following

A pentium G630 or G850 (about 70 to 80$ cpu)

Those are the Pentium 4's of today (if not the celerons of today but perform astonishingly well)

You can also get a Core I3.


If you go AMD, you can go for a phenom X4 if still in stock or an FX43XX

I would recommend an AMD A8 or A10 as they bring better balance for processing and video.




No matter what CPU you use, let it be a higher end Intel Core I5 to a lower end AMD FX4350

You will not see a massive difference in computer operation.

A computer can only go as fast as it can read the information given to it.

For the best computing experience, I STRONGLY suggest, you get a computer with an SSD Harddrive.

something like 180Gig or 256Gig ssd hard drive. (if you need more space, get a regular drive on the side for storage)


If you plan on building it yourself let us know and I am sure someone can make a full list of parts for you.