In light of the price drop of the P4's, I want to upgrade my current CPU. My current CPU is the P4 1.7ghz (256k, 400FSB) and I want to upgrade to a P4 2.4A (512k, 400FSB).
OK, so I know that the cache being doubled should show a big performance gain, and the added 700mhz shouldn't hurt either .
But my question is where will I see performance the gain and how much of a gain do you estimate will I see? I mostly use the computer for gaming and a fair bit of video encoding (vcd/svcd).
(FYI, I'm cheap and trying to justify the purchase. I also have to convince "the boss" if you know what I mean)
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OK, so I know that the cache being doubled should show a big performance gain, and the added 700mhz shouldn't hurt either .
But my question is where will I see performance the gain and how much of a gain do you estimate will I see? I mostly use the computer for gaming and a fair bit of video encoding (vcd/svcd).
(FYI, I'm cheap and trying to justify the purchase. I also have to convince "the boss" if you know what I mean)
<font color=red> Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question... just stupid people. </font color=red>