PC help?

[Soop]

Hey guys, how old is socket 939? My Motherboard is An Asus a8n delux or something, and I'm considering a small upgrade.

I can't remember what speed my CPU is at the moment, but I'm checking out what I can get at the moment. Otherwise next month I could consider a motherboard and CPU.

It's not used for anything particularly demanding, but dual core and hyperthreading would be good, as it performs a lot of background tasks like video recording/encoding.

I've just been looking at http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/desktop-cpu-charts/Encoding-Video-DivX,357.html
I don't understand... If the chart above gives 300 for a processor 2 years old, how can it give 300 for the best processor in the same test today?

[II ARROWS]

Emh... probabily you are reading that chart upside down... less time is better.

[Soop]

Oh yeah!

Still, the same time in seconds 2 years apart for CPUs is really bad! And I can't afford an i7

[Natea]

Perhaps you better ease yourself down on what you got and look for what you can have - I learned. In some while, there may have another 2 years passing by and yet another machine, and though you didn't effort the up-to-now you might not experience any bad negative circumstances about it. I had to work with a 233 Mhz Pentium up unto about 1 year ago!!!! (Before that I had an 800 Mhz AMD, while the motherboard sometime chose to become a smoker ;) ... bad thing! (It was the time where 900 Mhz was the cream on Top! ... System Shock 2 ... Unreal Turnament, Quake 3 - those times ... so long ... :stretcher:)