Comparing Old CPUs to New CPUs

[theknight571]

Is there a site that compares all of the CPUs "against" eact other?

I'm curious as to how my Athlon XP 1700+ compares to today's Semprons and Athlon 64s.

I know the new ones will be faster...but how much faster?

Its time to upgrade... but since we only surf/work/email on the PC.... I'm thinking I can keep this one going, depending on performance.

- TK

 

[wseyller]

There would be a huge difference. What will the uses of the PC be? Some uses may not benefit much from the upgrade especially if you are only surfing and checking email.

 

[MaxxuM]

There are lists on another popular "hardware" site, but I don't know if I should say which... I did leave a clue however in this answer.

 

[theknight571]

LOL... thanks... let me try some searches and see if I can figure it out.

To answer wseyller's question. The PC is used 85-90% for internet access/email/Office etc. The latest game I've played on it was the latest SimCity.

I've downloaded some demos that strained the integrated video on my current board, but that's an exception.

I "want" to upgrade... but the logical side of me keeps trying to talk me out of it, since "technically" I really don't need to.

 

[wseyller]

just as long as you have enough memory you should be fine with what you have. I never play sim city so I don't know the recommend specs needed. I would say that with typical internet access/email/Office use it would not see enough gain in performance to justify the price of such an upgrade.

 

[Unkno]

There you go.

 

[nyker96]

I was thinking the Tom's site as well, it's the only site that does a grand comparison of like 50 CPUs together, awesome chart!!

 

[kravmaga]

My dad recently upgraded from a 2ghz Intel to a 4 ghz and said he barely noticed a difference. all he does is Email, browse the web ect so I'm not sure if you would really notice much of a difference for those sort of apps. I went from a 2500+ XP barton @ 2.5ghz to a Venice 3500+ @ 2640mhz and finally I'm moving to a dual opty 170 and I haven't really been wowoed by the speed difference for email text etc.

 

[theknight571]

Originally posted by: Unkno
There you go.

After the hint from MaxxuM I searched over there but didn't find that... thanks.

It's what I was looking for.


Thanks for everyone's input.


- TK