Hi all,
Just looking for some advice regarding upgrading my cpu. At the moment my PC has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ cpu. Is it possible to simply 'drop in' a new CPU? If so, what CPU would you recommend (I think id prefer an intel, not something exorbitant like an i7 extreme, but not cheap either). The reason I seek to upgrade is merely out of desire for everything to happen quicker (browser loading, booting, loading apps etc), not so much out of desire to play the new games available (although that would be nice). Will a CPU upgrade speed these things up? RAM isn't a problem because I have 1.5GB and peak mem usage never goes above 400mb. I am running XP.
Thanks everyone, RM
Just looking for some advice regarding upgrading my cpu. At the moment my PC has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ cpu. Is it possible to simply 'drop in' a new CPU? If so, what CPU would you recommend (I think id prefer an intel, not something exorbitant like an i7 extreme, but not cheap either). The reason I seek to upgrade is merely out of desire for everything to happen quicker (browser loading, booting, loading apps etc), not so much out of desire to play the new games available (although that would be nice). Will a CPU upgrade speed these things up? RAM isn't a problem because I have 1.5GB and peak mem usage never goes above 400mb. I am running XP.
Thanks everyone, RM