If you're a casual user

[Twiki]

And you upgraded from dual core to quad core, was there improvement?

I know I don't need it but I'm curious what it's like to have a quad core. I'm using an i3 2105 and the CPU I'm interested in is an i5 3350P.

Interesting thing is that both are 3.1 Ghz and do 4 threads so it's i3 (two cores) with hyper-threading vs i5, (four cores) without HT.

 

[jonnyp11]

For normal school type use and stuff it wont change, only like photoshop and encoding would show a noticeable difference, ot even gaming would be much different

 

[spirit]

Honestly going from an i3 to an i5 if you're not doing anything which requires the extra cores is pointless.

 

[jamesd1981]

Going by the specs in your sig twiki, you would get a much better performance boost and probably cost much less money by getting an ssd.

I would say an ssd gives any level of user a noticable performance boost.

 

[Twiki]

Thanks guys. I have to say that my i3 does well.

 

[2048Megabytes]

The Intel Core i3 2105 is a high end processor. At www.CPUBenchmark.net that processor was rated at 3,789.

When I ran the tests on my Phenom II 945 Quad-Core with DDR3 memory it scored about a 4,000.

 

[porterjw]

Going by the specs in your sig twiki, you would get a much better performance boost and probably cost much less money by getting an ssd.

I would say an ssd gives any level of user a noticable performance boost.

:good: Night and day difference. Even a lower-end SSD will smoke what you (the OP) have meow.

 

[Twiki]

:good: Night and day difference. Even a lower-end SSD will smoke what you have meow.

LOL, Super Troopers right?