cbwaters wrote: >Ok, I know... Get a mac... I get it. just can't right now. > >My PC is a P4 1.7 (don't know the FSB speed) and I've got 504MB of DDR DIMM >RAM (not sure of the speed there either) > >Without switching motherboards, I can move up to around P4 3.0 with an >800Mhz FSB and hyper-threading for about $85. > >How would one describe the improvement is speed here? 1-10 with ten being >"waoh, that's the best $85 I ever spent!" > >I could, of course, also get more memory.
If you only have $85, spend it on memory. If you can get the CPU as well, it should give you a pretty good performance boost. I'd say about a 6 on your scale - largely because $85 isn't that much these days ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
