What Difference between these CPUs?
After a number of years with old faithful 900Mhz AMD I have decided to do a modest (cheap) upgrade.
I am looking at the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA 775 VIA PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard as it allows me to keep my IDE hard drives and optical drives with giving me the option of adding SATA when I need to replace a piece or just feel like spending some money. It also allows me to keep my old but sturdy AGP card.
I have narrowed the CPU down to a 1.6 GHz Dual Core or a 3.0 GHZ Pentium. They are both the same price but which is the faster/better processor?
Since I have your attention, I might as well find out what you all think is better between 2Gigs of DDR2 667 type RAM and 2 Gigs of DDR 400 RAM. I can use either of these in the motherboard and the price is about the same.
I do word processing, internet, some music ripping and some light photo work with my computer. I am hoping though to make my new system a dual boot with linux and/or running virtualzation on the computer. I am not a gamer so I do not need the latest and greatest.
Thanks for any suggestions and opinions.
Doc