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Old 27-01-2007, 14:57   #68
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Re: Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter View Post
I got the E6400 and decided to get some new memory and a HDD as well (I was still on IDE). Perhaps I should have got the 6600 but it was 60 quid more. I'm not short, just a tightwad Mind you, anything would be an improvement over an XP2200 at this point.
Nice 1 you'll find your new machine around 3x faster than you're old one based on cpu benches. (no windows wont load 3 times faster btw)

In the real world if you can RAID0 a couple of SATA drives you'll really notice an additional big performance gain making your new machine very fluid.
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