I will be buying a new Dell computer next week and I'm a little confused
about all of the new processors even after reading wikipedia articles so I
thought I would ask you guys (always a big help in the past - THANKS very
much and TIA here too!).
So the question is - which processor would be best for me - best bang for
the buck?
Other than the internet I mostly use MS office and an older dos based
accounting program I need to keep. I don't play games or do any video or
photoshop stuff.
I will be replacing a 3 year old Dell OptiPlex 620 that has a 3.60 gigahertz
Intel Pentium 4, Windows XP and 2gb RAM.
Earlier this year I bought a Dell Optiplex 755 with a 3.00 gigahertz Intel
Core2 Duo (e8400 I think), Windows XP, 2gb RAM.
Comparing the two computers the Optiplex 755 with Core2 Duo is noticably
faster thank Pentium 4 when running several applications at the same time -
part of what I thought benefited the most from multi core processors.
Now I see all sorts of options for multi core processors. Will a quad core
processor likely make that much difference for me? What would be the best
bang for the buck in a new processor?
thanks for any help
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