Is it Worth the Upgrade

[Talal Itani]

Hello,

I currently have a PC with a P4 Northwood 2400 MHz, overclocked to 2700 Mhz.
I use my PC to do a lot of number crunching, like audio coding and decoding.
I am trying to figure out if a newer faster PC is really worth the upgrade.
I have my eyes set on the Core 2 Duo, yet I do not know what performance
advantage I can get over my current system. Can you refer me to benchmarks,
that compare the older Intel P4 CPUs, with these new Core 2 Duo? Thanks.

T.I.

 

[Zadok]

Hello,

I currently have a PC with a P4 Northwood 2400 MHz, overclocked to 2700 Mhz.
I use my PC to do a lot of number crunching, like audio coding and decoding.
I am trying to figure out if a newer faster PC is really worth the upgrade.
I have my eyes set on the Core 2 Duo, yet I do not know what performance
advantage I can get over my current system. Can you refer me to benchmarks,
that compare the older Intel P4 CPUs, with these new Core 2 Duo? Thanks.

T.I.

How many groups did you crosspost to? Turkey!
http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/default.aspx?familyID=1&culture=en-US
and
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html
will get you started.

-- Zadok
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[kony]

Hello,

I currently have a PC with a P4 Northwood 2400 MHz, overclocked to 2700 Mhz.
I use my PC to do a lot of number crunching, like audio coding and decoding.
I am trying to figure out if a newer faster PC is really worth the upgrade.
I have my eyes set on the Core 2 Duo, yet I do not know what performance
advantage I can get over my current system. Can you refer me to benchmarks,
that compare the older Intel P4 CPUs, with these new Core 2 Duo? Thanks.

Since you will end up excessively crossposting this Q until
you buy a new PC, the answer is yes it's worthwhile and yes
I can refer you to benchmarks... but I'm not going to
because you can do your own web searches.