Shall I retain my CPU?

[tim101]

I have a five year old LGA 775 Pentium 4HT based unit (Asus P5PE-VM, Pentium 4 531 3.0Ghz Prescott, 2Gb Hynix DDR 400, 160Gb Seagate SATA HDD, Inno3D Geforce FX 5500 AGP card) I know this spec is quite old in today's standards but I'm still satisfied with its performance. But I'm planning to upgrade my cpu, a core 2 duo 4400. I usually do web surfing, playing online games, word processing, downloading music and movies, watching movies & videos online, photo editing (adobe cs3) and playing casual & interactive games among others. Does the performance will be more snappier if I switch to core 2 duo?? or shall I retain the single core hyper threaded pentium 4 in doing these tasks? Any advice shall be appreciated. Thank you very much..

[Chook]

A Core 2 Duo should be faster (in spite of slower clock speed) and will also run cooler. That board can take almost the whole range of Core 2 Duo so it is easy to upgrade again in the future if need be.

[iLoveIntel]

I don't think you should upgrade the CPU yet, it's better than you think. Your GPU is by far the bottleneck, I would upgrade that first thing. I had a P4 @ 4GHz and it bottlenecked a Radeon HD 4870 with some room to spare