Nice upgrade

[Phynaz]

You know upgrading to an i7-870 from a P4 is a pretty nice upgrade.

This thing is kind of snappy. lol.

 

[yh125d]

Yep. I mean, it's only like 8-10 times as fast as a single core P4.

 

[thegimp03]

Yeah I'd say so. I think the last time I used a P4 was 7 years ago.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Thats a huge upgrade

 

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

i'm amazed that you were able to last this long on a P4

 

[nyker96]

wait til you overclock that cpu some more, will be snappier! but I can image coming from P4, this must be huge difference oc/no oc.

 

[Idontcare]

plz tell me you threw an SSD into that upgrade as well...breathed new life into my (less) aging Q6600 platform.

 

[Phynaz]

IDC, an SSD was out of budget this time around. With the advances that are being made I'm willing to wait a while. But it is on the wish list.

 

[Idontcare]

I hear you, I thought long and hard for nearly 6 months before I finally ponied up the $400 for a 160G2. If you end up hanging on to your i7-870 for as long as you did your P4 then an SSD upgrade will certainly add some cheap zip to your rig in a couple of years.

 

[Axon]

You know upgrading to an i7-870 from a P4 is a pretty nice upgrade.

This thing is kind of snappy. lol.

Meh.

JK JK

That's a quantum leap...it must feel like you've gotten superior technology from the future now. Don't worry about an SSD for a while. Unless you're a performance maniac, there's no reason for someone to get an SSD right now.

 

[HumblePie]

LOL. congrats. For something similar, I upgraded my uncle and aunts computer running a old celeron 600 (castrated p3 chip) with 256 MB with memory and win 95. Gave them an old skt 939 opteron 165 (dual core) I had laying around. Built them the system and OC'd it to 3Ghz with 2GB of DDR and windows 7. To them it was like night and day. I even tossed in an ati 4850 1GB card along with some games so they could play and try those out.

The rest of my family knows I am a computer guy, but thinks I am weird for having all the constant hardware upgrades but I think I got my uncle at least convinced. Or at least he's now hooked on a few games