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<blockquote data-quote="Vagabond" data-source="post: 1939558" data-attributes="member: 14517"><p>Probably not, but maybe <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> From the human perception point of view, you won't notice any difference. Applications might load 1/100th of a second faster, excel will calculate faster, but you won't really notice any speed gains for most of your computing. Looking at the raw speeds from PCStats (Great site by the way, thanks for the pointer Hand of Evil), I'd say that you will be able to shave a few minutes off of long editing sessions. As your motherboard will handle a 3000+ chip, you can try to overclock the 2500+ that is in there, and see if that makes an apprecable difference. Overclocking will be done in the BIOS, usually by selecting a faster bus speed, or clock multiplier, <a href="http://www.overclockers.com" target="_blank">http://www.overclockers.com</a> should be able to help you out with the pros and cons of overclocking.</p><p></p><p>However, the safest way to determine if the CPU is the bottleneck is to run either task manager (Press <Ctrl>-<alt>-<del> on a windows XP box to bring it up), or my favorite from sysinternals: Process explorer (<a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml</a>) and then run your video capture/editing and see where the CPU usage sits. If it is constantly pegged at 100%, then a new CPU will help, if it only hovers around 100%, and spends most of the time in the 80-90's, then a faster CPU isn't going to help much.</p><p></p><p>As far as SATA drives go, you can add a SATA to your existing system without losing your old drives (assuming you have enough room in your case that is. If you don't then forget about going to SATA until your next PC). The BIOS on your motherboard determines what will boot first, and is probably set to default to IDE, even if SATA drives are present. </p><p></p><p>The advantage of SATA over IDE isn't so much the raw speed of the drives (spec wise, IDE and SATA drives are very similar), it is that SATA drives don't rely on the CPU as much as IDE drives do. On an IDE system, every time that the computer needs to access the hard drive, (or CDROM), the CPU must do most of the work setting up the drive for access, handling certain error conditions telling the drive to go to work, and handling the transfer of data. All this takes cycles from your applications. If you ever noticed your computer pause (as in even the mouse pointer doesn't move) at the same time your hard drive light goes on for a brief time, this is what is happening. On a SATA system, the CPU only has to hand off the request for data, and it can go back doing work on something else, until the hard drive request is completed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vagabond, post: 1939558, member: 14517"] Probably not, but maybe :) From the human perception point of view, you won't notice any difference. Applications might load 1/100th of a second faster, excel will calculate faster, but you won't really notice any speed gains for most of your computing. Looking at the raw speeds from PCStats (Great site by the way, thanks for the pointer Hand of Evil), I'd say that you will be able to shave a few minutes off of long editing sessions. As your motherboard will handle a 3000+ chip, you can try to overclock the 2500+ that is in there, and see if that makes an apprecable difference. Overclocking will be done in the BIOS, usually by selecting a faster bus speed, or clock multiplier, [url]http://www.overclockers.com[/url] should be able to help you out with the pros and cons of overclocking. However, the safest way to determine if the CPU is the bottleneck is to run either task manager (Press <Ctrl>-<alt>-<del> on a windows XP box to bring it up), or my favorite from sysinternals: Process explorer ([url]http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml[/url]) and then run your video capture/editing and see where the CPU usage sits. If it is constantly pegged at 100%, then a new CPU will help, if it only hovers around 100%, and spends most of the time in the 80-90's, then a faster CPU isn't going to help much. As far as SATA drives go, you can add a SATA to your existing system without losing your old drives (assuming you have enough room in your case that is. If you don't then forget about going to SATA until your next PC). The BIOS on your motherboard determines what will boot first, and is probably set to default to IDE, even if SATA drives are present. The advantage of SATA over IDE isn't so much the raw speed of the drives (spec wise, IDE and SATA drives are very similar), it is that SATA drives don't rely on the CPU as much as IDE drives do. On an IDE system, every time that the computer needs to access the hard drive, (or CDROM), the CPU must do most of the work setting up the drive for access, handling certain error conditions telling the drive to go to work, and handling the transfer of data. All this takes cycles from your applications. If you ever noticed your computer pause (as in even the mouse pointer doesn't move) at the same time your hard drive light goes on for a brief time, this is what is happening. On a SATA system, the CPU only has to hand off the request for data, and it can go back doing work on something else, until the hard drive request is completed. [/QUOTE]
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