So i have $0 budget for upgrades. Ever. We buried ourselves in debt a long time ago and are only just now digging ourselves out, almost all of my money goes to that and I just can't ever justify an upgrade, so ALL of my machines are hand me downs. That said, I just UPGRADED from a 3.4GHz Hyperthreaded Pentium 4 from early 2004 to a slightly newer 2.66 GHz dual core from probably late 2004. The WEI went from 3.4 to 4.4, splendid. It was also, noticeably snappier, I was pleased. This was maybe a month ago.
Recently I was given a dual core from 2006 clocked at 3.00GHz because I mentioned it would probably work in the board I had. I threw it in, it fired right up no problems, and I eagerly awaited the new WEI from the 2 year newer, roughly 333MHz faster processor. It dropped to 4.3. Huh? The bottleneck in the system, is STILL the processor, that's the bottom score, everything else is 4.6/4.8/6.1/5.5 going down the list. I thought sure it would go up even a tenth or two. The processor is still the same LINE... a Pentium D I believe.
I didn't look exceptionally close at the processor, so I suppose it could have a lower amount of cache making it less efficient or something, but I thought sure a faster proc in the same line would net me better performance.
Am I putting too much stock in the WEI? I know its rather arbitrary, but I don't have much else as a basis of comparison. I was just surprised to see it drop a tenth, rather than rise a tenth.
Would it be worth my time to swap it BACK out for the slower proc since the score was higher? Or just say eff it? The computer really still feels about the same, so I'm leaning towards eff it.
EDIT* Other info
CPUZ says this is running at 800MHz FSB. It is a Pentium D 925 Presler. If that means anything to anyone. The old CPU had a 533 FSB. That further confuses me.
Recently I was given a dual core from 2006 clocked at 3.00GHz because I mentioned it would probably work in the board I had. I threw it in, it fired right up no problems, and I eagerly awaited the new WEI from the 2 year newer, roughly 333MHz faster processor. It dropped to 4.3. Huh? The bottleneck in the system, is STILL the processor, that's the bottom score, everything else is 4.6/4.8/6.1/5.5 going down the list. I thought sure it would go up even a tenth or two. The processor is still the same LINE... a Pentium D I believe.
I didn't look exceptionally close at the processor, so I suppose it could have a lower amount of cache making it less efficient or something, but I thought sure a faster proc in the same line would net me better performance.
Am I putting too much stock in the WEI? I know its rather arbitrary, but I don't have much else as a basis of comparison. I was just surprised to see it drop a tenth, rather than rise a tenth.
Would it be worth my time to swap it BACK out for the slower proc since the score was higher? Or just say eff it? The computer really still feels about the same, so I'm leaning towards eff it.
EDIT* Other info
CPUZ says this is running at 800MHz FSB. It is a Pentium D 925 Presler. If that means anything to anyone. The old CPU had a 533 FSB. That further confuses me.
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