intel Dual Core 1.8Ghz or My intel P4 3.2ghz 2mb 800mhz?

Question

iv'e seen on ebay Dual Cores 1.8ghz (£50)which equals to 3.6ghz...is this processor really only 400mhz faster and not worth my upgrading?

whats better quad or dual as they seem to be as cheap as each other..

Answer 1

Matters what else you have in your setup and what you are doing. If you have two or more hard drives, yeah dual and quads can be better. If you are a gamer, they can be a lot better (well for the newer games). At the moment I would not move off the 3.2 for a 1.8. It is more then just the ghz it is also the fsb which is different. Sometimes a different motherboard to handle things.
Quads are great for gamers and people with auto cad, graphics, movie editing. But multi hard drives are needed to really see a great difference. One hard drive for the OS and Virus scan, another for the movie editing and a different one for the games. Things will only move as fast as the slowest component with computers.

Answer 2

Depends on which Dual core your looking at (there is the Core 2 Duo, the Core Duo, and The Pentium D), but from your description it sounds like you're looking at Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale CPUs. If you look at the Toms Hardware CPU charts that the earlier poster linked to you will see that the E4300 easily doubles the performance of the P4 3.2 Ghz chips (the P4 "E" 640/641 are the only 3.2 Ghz chips listed), and on top of it, the E4300 can be easily overclocked to 3 Ghz, which would more than triple the performance of the P4.

If your motherboard supports it, I would recommend it.

Answer 3

Its not worth upgrading to just a normal Dual Core, if it was a Core 2 Duo then that would be great as it has 2 cores and simulates 2 more, quad cores are the best but are very expensive, quad cores with 4 real cores.

Go with a Core 2 Duo if you really want to upgrade. 400mhz will not make too much of a difference if you are taking care of your computer and dont have many backround processes. If you are taking care of it, you should have 28-37 running processes in the backround. with that many i had a 3.0ghz p4 and it ran everything just fine.

Answer 4

The ATI Radeon HD 4200 is an onboard (or shared memory) pictures chip on the RS880M chipset. that's based on the HD 3400 pictures middle and good factors the UVD 2 video engine to decode HD movies. The Intel GMA x4500 is a Directx10 able onboard pictures adapter for the Centrino 2 platform. The chip has no devoted pictures memory, yet takes dynamically an volume from the main considerable memory, as much as 384MB) yet neither of those pictures adapters have their very own devoted GPU with it is very own memory. in case you opt for for to run any variety of a great sport or upcoming destiny video games, the two equipment will do, yet i think of the Athlon II X2 would be a swifter processor than the twin-middle Pentium. purely make certain you get a separate pictures card. There are taking part in cards accessible now which will value you no greater beneficial than $a hundred and fifty and could modestly run even the main annoying video games at a mid-point selection with good FPS.

Answer 5

I'll just recommend a website which is EXTREMELY useful.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html

I advise anyone who is buying new Hardware to always take a look on this site before they make a purchase. Tom's Hardware is brilliant, it displays charts for all types of Hardware, and you can select from loads of application's to run so it displays how they perform under different stress levels. Such as playing Quake 4, using 3DS MAX, etc.
Hope this site helps, it helps me every time!

Answer 6

If you are referring to the new E2160 (Core 2 Duo) 1.8Ghz, it is fast, cool running, great overclocker and most of all, CHEAP.
Easily beats the Pentium Ds (dual cores) in most games:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-e2160_13.html#sect0
Fantastic when overclocked:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-e2160_14.html#sect0

Answer 7

P4 IS BETTER I YOU ARE NOT SATISFY THEN YOU CAN TRY AMD QUAD CORE CPUS WHICH IS OF 4GHZ AND HAVE 4 CORES!