775 processor vs 478 processor

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Would moving to a P5P800 with a 775 3.0ghz, be much of an improvement over a
P4C-800 with a 478 2.8 cpu?

Isn't this just Northwoods vs Prescott? Is peformance better??

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kony said:
No, not worth the time to do it.
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Not only not worth, but you're better with a Northwood core rather than
Prescott: (very much) lower temps and power consumption. And if you want to
make it faster, no problem to overclock a 2.8 GHz Northwood to 3.2 GHz, all
with stock cooler.
But if you install a Prescott, you'll have to change the stock cooler to a
better one in order to keep temps and noise at an acceptable level.
The only benefit with Prescotts comes from the motherboard and chipset that
could allow PCI Express and DDR2. Question remains if in real life you will
notice any difference...
 
I kinda suspected so, I find my ram timing slow for my Kingston ram, cpu is
at 3.0, better ram needed.
 
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