God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Oct 12 2006 : 11:08AM
Has anyone screwed with the new Pentium Core 2 Duo chips?
Although I'm broke... I'm very interested. I have sen the benchmarks and stuff, just curious if anyone has upgraded and seen a huge difference.
I'm mainly interested if anyone upgraded from a P4, lets say 3GHz, to a Core 2 Duo, of from a 3500+ AMD 64 to a Core 2 Duo. I'm interested in these as they are more of less "middle of the line" just a short time ago and single core.
"The universe is hostile, So impersonal. Devour to survive." - Tool
That's my conundrum. My system could use replacing, yet the OS wouldn't be able to really utilize the new processor. Then, when Vista comes out it will be buggy and even without that will undoubtely be an ungodly drain on the processor - even if you don't do a lot of animation and video. So adding Vista later (even without the problems that will probably occur) will not be a great option. So it will take a year to work out the errors in Vista and for processors that will be fast enough to not get bogged down by Microsoft's improvements to come out.
I don't see Vista having huge problems. The betas have been freely available for a while and everyone seems to like it.
The biggest concern I'd have is software incompatibility. Particularily security software, Norton loves to fuck people over and force them to purchase an upgrade.
#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03
Posted - Oct 13 2006 : 11:42PM
I have the 64 bit version running on one machine, and it works pretty well. The beta was a little rough around the edges, but the recently released Release Candidate version is better.
Norton take knob-like behaviour to a whole new level. They support software for about 2 or 3 years before it is deemed obsolete. They go in hard and fast with no lube and don't expect a reach-around.