It all depends on what you want to do with it. It is not surely the fastest PC in existence, and probably won't cut it for "serious" gaming, but it's more than enough to run XP and Office applications, provided it has also enough RAM of course.
To answer your question yes that's a better cpu in every way, seed, cache ect. so will speed up processing data, but you will only be as quick as your slowest component, that usually begin the ram and or hard drive. if you want to do some high end gaming or video work you should get a new rig.
might just be your boot up, different motherboard and bios systems boot up at different speeds, i have a complex system with a few SATA arrays and i take about 1 and a half mins to get past POST screens before windows even loads.
Though this new cpu may help you by a few seconds, as would RAM, but i really would not worry about your boot time.might just be your boot up, different motherboard and bios systems boot up at different speeds, i have a complex system with a few SATA arrays and i take about 1 and a half mins to get past POST screens before windows even loads. Though this new cpu may help you by a few seconds, as would RAM, but i really would not worry about your boot time.
in that case the hard drive may have a bad sector within the platter, i didn't know about your defragging issue. you may need a new HDD, IDE drives are very cheap now, but before you purchase one, you might want to borrow one from a friend to test with in case the problem is still there. and if it fixes the problem, then you know its the hard drive and can purchase a new one.in that case the hard drive may have a bad sector within the platter, i didn't know about your defragging issue. you may need a new HDD, IDE drives are very cheap now, but before you purchase one, you might want to borrow one from a friend to test with in case the problem is still there. and if it fixes the problem, then you know its the hard drive and can purchase a new one.
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It all depends on what you want to do with it. It is not surely the fastest PC in existence, and probably won't cut it for "serious" gaming, but it's more than enough to run XP and Office applications, provided it has also enough RAM of course.
To answer your question yes that's a better cpu in every way, seed, cache ect. so will speed up processing data, but you will only be as quick as your slowest component, that usually begin the ram and or hard drive.
if you want to do some high end gaming or video work you should get a new rig.
might just be your boot up, different motherboard and bios systems boot up at different speeds, i have a complex system with a few SATA arrays and i take about 1 and a half mins to get past POST screens before windows even loads.
Though this new cpu may help you by a few seconds, as would RAM, but i really would not worry about your boot time.
in that case the hard drive may have a bad sector within the platter, i didn't know about your defragging issue. you may need a new HDD, IDE drives are very cheap now, but before you purchase one, you might want to borrow one from a friend to test with in case the problem is still there. and if it fixes the problem, then you know its the hard drive and can purchase a new one.