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Long ago, when computers were very slow, a technophile friend of mine talked about "slaving" together processors to make his 486 Pentium faster. Is it possible or feasible to do with a Dell XPS 400 running Intel Pentium 3.5 GHz dual processors? It runs slower than I like with the 2GB of ram, which I am going to max out to 4GB. However, the processor is often maxed out by one or two resource greedy programs I run (photo/drawing, editing etc.) and I am afraid the extra memory will not be enough. Any opinions on whether it would be worth either adding extra processors (if possible) or just buying a faster dual processor to replace my current one? Thanks for any input.
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The 4gb of ram will not really make a big difference to 2gb. If you had 256mb, and you were going to 4gb you would notice a difference lol, but from 2gb, you wont notice a difference at all in speed. Do you have Pentium D dual core or what? Depending on what type of motherboard you have, (you could probably check with dell or online, if your motherboard supports 1066mhz front side bus, you can upgrade to an intel core 2 duo processor, you will notice a huge performance increase, they are the fastest dual core processors around right now for the price. You CANNOT put more than 1 cpu in the motherboard. The best way to go would be to get the intel core 2 duo cpu. they start off at 180$, but july 22nd, intel is dropping the prices drastically, on those, and coming out with the new versions of them. Look into it, if your motherboard can support it.
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- No...sounds like spyware to me...
- u cant
- Yes but motherboard that contains two dual core processor would be the Xeon. They are designed to process enough work for the server's workload.
Xeon processor can dual at 4 Ghz, combining two together make an awesome machine. I don't know if it support PCI express however but you can check for motherboard that allow PCI express slot. They should cost about over $2,000 for two dual core Xeon processor not including the motherboard. - NOT!
Are you running Vista? Resource hog.
The new Dells 'call home' plus the other crap running in the background. Decide if you want to turn off and/or delete these processes. Also, they are bundled with trial ware - get rid of all of it!
Make sure that you have at least two good anti-spyware programs running. Spybot, Spyware Blaster, Super Anti-Spyware. Scan your hard drive.
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