Is the Core 2 Duo similar to my Centrino Duo? Bill
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Feroze Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:00 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: CPU question Have you looked at the Pentium D 960, 3.6Ghz its a 775 socket so I think it should fit your board. I'm currently upgrading to the the Core 2 Duo, have the chip and ram, awaiting delivery of the m/board and graphics card. I've seen test results on this chip that shows a 40% increase in photoshop and a 13% increase over the Athlon 64 FX-62. Feroze 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. > > Thanks for any help. > > CW > > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
