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Snake Doctor · 08-13-2007, 04:58 PM

I'm thinking of upgrading my PC....doing alot of video work these days and of course faster would be better.

I've got a dell 8300 something or other, Windows XP media edition.

P4 3.2ghz, 2GB RAM, 400GB hard drive.

Now if I went to dell's site and they said processors were now 6ghz then I'd know that's double....instead they have these kind of descriptions "Intel® Core?2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB) "

so I really have no idea how it compares to what I have now.

I paid like 3K for this box a couple years ago and before I spend probably that much again I'd like to know what I'm getting....I won't spend that much for only a 20% improvement in performance.

08-13-2007, 04:58 PM
Snake Doctor I'm Lenny2 Bitch Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: On top of my soapbox Posts: 13,449	Can someone explain to me how dual core and quad core and shit work? I'm thinking of upgrading my PC....doing alot of video work these days and of course faster would be better. I've got a dell 8300 something or other, Windows XP media edition. P4 3.2ghz, 2GB RAM, 400GB hard drive. Now if I went to dell's site and they said processors were now 6ghz then I'd know that's double....instead they have these kind of descriptions "Intel® Core?2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB) " so I really have no idea how it compares to what I have now. I paid like 3K for this box a couple years ago and before I spend probably that much again I'd like to know what I'm getting....I won't spend that much for only a 20% improvement in performance.