p4 upgrade

WHITEGHOST

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Jul 8, 2003
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Hi all,

Just joined your forum. I am in friendly competition with your Distributed Folding team. I am on the FreeDC team.

I want a little more fire power. I have two amd boxen which do good. my first computer is a Dell. Has a Willamette 1.6. I was thinking of putting a cheap celeron 2.6 in it, but reading your forum has changed my mind.
Now I am thinking of trying this,

Intel Pentium 4 / 2.4GHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 400MHz Retail Box
Specifications:
CPU: 2.4 GHz
Type: Pentium 4 Northwood
Cache: 512K
BUS: 400 MHz

What performance boost do you think i would gain over 1.6 willamette?

thanks