CPU upgrade question

[jabbu]

<p>I asked this question a while back, and didn't get an answer, so I am back <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> One of our EQ2 boxes runs an E4600 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo (along with 4gb ram, and a Radeon 5770, and a 1080p display resolution, and Win XP). Would a 3.2ghz Pentium DC be much of an upgrade? They seem to the same features, and with EQ2 seeming to like faster clock speed CPUs, I would think it should help some. Just curious if I am missing something. Thank you.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>jabbu wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I asked this question a while back, and didn't get an answer, so I am back <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> One of our EQ2 boxes runs an E4600 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo (along with 4gb ram, and a Radeon 5770, and a 1080p display resolution, and Win XP). Would a 3.2ghz Pentium DC be much of an upgrade? They seem to the same features, and with EQ2 seeming to like faster clock speed CPUs, I would think it should help some. Just curious if I am missing something. Thank you.</p></blockquote><p>while eq2 is not written as a SMP application, it still gets a boost from the faster clocked CPU, they are moving from being a cpu dependant application to one that offloads to the gpu - while they have made major advancedments, it is not quite there yet.</p><p>As far as performance increase - you will see one, but it may not be as high as you expect it to be.</p>

[jabbu]

<p>So you don't think it would make a noticable difference, even raiding, from 2.4ghz to 3.2ghz?</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>jabbu wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>So you don't think it would make a noticable difference, even raiding, from 2.4ghz to 3.2ghz?</p></blockquote><p>It will be noticable, but to build on what Wing was saying, it may not be as much of an increase as you might expect in a 33% clock speed increase.</p>

[jabbu]

<p>Thank you for the replies. I will post my experience with it when I get it.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Thanks for keeping us updated <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>