How much performance difference???

[Dufrane]

I am currently running an athlon 64 3000+ (skt 754) 2.0 ghz with 1 gb of pc3200 ram.

How much of a performance boost would upgrading to an athlon 64 4200+ (am2 skt) dual core 2.2 ghz with 2 gb pc2 5300 ram???

 

[Pabster]

Very nearly 100% depending on the things you do.

A 4200+ X2 is like 2 of your 3000+ and then some.

 

[Noema]

It depends on the app, like Pabster said. Windows will feel snappier, apps will load a bit quicker and heavy processing tasks (encoding, etc.) will also benefit greatly.


But games? Not nearly as much, as the bottleneck is in the GPU for the most part anyway in modern games like Oblivion and FEAR.

 

[Dufrane]

would windows vista take greater advantage of dual core processing???