Hi;
I am considering upgrading from my current single-core P4 to dual or quad core, with new mobo and memory, but keeping same (NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512) video for now.
My question is whether I should also upgrade Windows (currently running Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit) to 64 bit, and would I also need to upgrade my apps to 64 bit to take advantage of the dual cores.
I have one game that specifically states it will run better on multi-core processor, but what about apps that don't specify cores.
I have a very old app that processes sound files; Cool Edit 2000, with all of the plug-ins. Some of the ops take a long time to complete, and I'm wondering whether this will take less time if I run mutli cores on Windows 7 64 bit.
Another app I have that can take a while to process data is Adobe Photoshop 7. This is a very old version, so it won't be multi-core aware either.
If it turns out that upgrading will only get me better performance in the one game, then it may not be worth the expanse.
Thanks for your advice.
FW
I am considering upgrading from my current single-core P4 to dual or quad core, with new mobo and memory, but keeping same (NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512) video for now.
My question is whether I should also upgrade Windows (currently running Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit) to 64 bit, and would I also need to upgrade my apps to 64 bit to take advantage of the dual cores.
I have one game that specifically states it will run better on multi-core processor, but what about apps that don't specify cores.
I have a very old app that processes sound files; Cool Edit 2000, with all of the plug-ins. Some of the ops take a long time to complete, and I'm wondering whether this will take less time if I run mutli cores on Windows 7 64 bit.
Another app I have that can take a while to process data is Adobe Photoshop 7. This is a very old version, so it won't be multi-core aware either.
If it turns out that upgrading will only get me better performance in the one game, then it may not be worth the expanse.
Thanks for your advice.
FW