Compressing files with WinRAR 3.7 is considerably quicker on the 4200+ dual core.
The overall PCMark05 score pretty much represents the maximum difference among the four setups in real life.
Summary
- Dispose Or Recycle? How To Spend Your Upgrade Money
- Our Reference System: Two Years Old
- Upgrade Considerations
- Processor
- Hard Drive
- The $200 Upgrade
- The $500 Upgrade
- Test Setup
- Individual Benchmark Results
- Audio Encoding
- Application And Synthetic Benchmarks
- Graphics Benchmarks
- 3D Score
- Video Score
- Conclusion
