New Computer...

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Started as price check, So we will change it to a Look at my new system thread. Should be a pretty good improvement corect?

Processor - Intel Core i5 - 760
Mother Board - Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3
Memory - 4G G.SKILL (2X2) DDR3 1333
Hard Drive - SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F3 1TB 7200rpm
Optical Drive - Sony 24x DVD burner
Case - Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced
Power Supply - Antec NEO ECO 620W
OS - Windows 7 x64 Busniess Edition ($10 from college friend)
HS & Fan - Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme
Video Card - MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1g 256bit

Old System
Processor - Intel C2D E8400
Mother Board - Abit IP35 PRO
Memory - 8g of Patriot Extreme DDR2 800
Hard Drive - Seagate 7200.11 320g
Optical Drive - Asus DVD Burner 24x
Case - Antec Sonata III with the included 500w earthwatts PS
OS - Windows Vista x64
HS & Fan - Tuniq Tower 120
Video Card - Asus HD4870 1g 256bit

 

[jacktesterson]

No Price checks allowed. Expect the thread to be locked any minute


I found out the hard way too!!

 

[muskie32]

No Price checks allowed. Expect the thread to be locked any minute


I found out the hard way too!!

:thumbsup:

 

[zi0n.]

no price checks :#

 

[mfenn]

The new build looks pretty damn good to me!

 

[konakid7]

Nice build. The $10 for Windows 7 is pretty sweet too.

 

[Davidh373]

That looks great to me!

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Started as price check, So we will change it to a Look at my new system thread. Should be a pretty good improvement corect?
Old System
Processor - Intel C2D E8400

I am not so sure it will be a big improvement if you are only looking at cpu performance.
Check here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

Look at sysmark 2007 overall. The i5 /760 is only 10% faster. That is not significant.

You will see a faster response time only if you are running software that supports multi-processing.

I am running an e8400 overclocked to 3.8 GHz and have been wondering if I should upgrade to an 15/760.

I am not sure it will be worth it. It would cost me about $500 for a new cpu + system board + memory.

 

[mfenn]

I am not so sure it will be a big improvement if you are only looking at cpu performance.
Check here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

Look at sysmark 2007 overall. The i5 /760 is only 10% faster. That is not significant.

You will see a faster response time only if you are running software that supports multi-processing.

I am running an e8400 overclocked to 3.8 GHz and have been wondering if I should upgrade to an 15/760.

I am not sure it will be worth it. It would cost me about $500 for a new cpu + system board + memory.

Sysmark's overall score is a pretty terrible indicator of CPU performance because Sysmark is supposed to be an all-around system benchmark. When you take those largely IO-bound tasks and use them to compare two systems have the same storage subsystem, of course you are going to get similar results.

Now, an E8400 is no slouch, but if you use any sort of multithreaded apps (more and more common these days), you will see a huge improvement.

 

[jaydee]

If budget were at all a concern (which does not appear to be the case), I think you'd be vastly better off buying the video card & win7 and holding tight on everything else for (at least) one more generation of cpu's. Check that, I'd recommend buying a speedy SSD boot drive for your older rig (90GB for $143?). Then again, you didn't give us any clue on what you're doing with the computer, so it's hard to say.