duron 1300 to athlon 2200 - how big a difference will I see?

[phijay]

hi, ive got a duron 1300 running at the moment, and have been given an athlon 2200. I know about having to reregister windows and the fitting of the component, but will I actually notice a real difference after the upgrade in performance, or will it be pretty much the same as always?

Spec:
duron 1300 @ 1297mhz
geforce 3
2048mb pc2100 Ram @ 266mhz
(the above are the only specs i think are necessary - i'm running a 20gb and a 120 gb hard drive, a pci soundblaster and a wireless networking card)

Thanks for any help

[Thandor]

Reinstalling Windows might not be necessary. Juts plug in the new CPU, make sure it's running at 1800MHz (133FSB) in the BIOS and of you go .

About performance: you will notice a difference. The Athlon XP has a bigger L2-cache, higher FSB and higher clock-frequency.

[D.8080]

Depends on what you do.
But you'll see a more fluid win XP.

Applications that rely solely on frequency will be faster, not inhumanly faster but less time is more time for you

[iguana]

imho +10...15% on the average

[D.8080]

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2004/benchmarks,18.html