I'm not sure about VR dictation program, but graphics related program will
benefite from P3's faster FPU and possiblely SSE instruction set (if the
software can take advantage of it, eg Photoshop). You would expect
noticeable performance increase when upgrade for P2-450 to P3-550. I'd
suggest the upgrade.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Rivenbark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 3:39 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] PII vs PIII


> What is the performance difference between the PII and the PIII
> processors - who's going to experience a noticeable difference when
> upgrading?
>
> I have two users that want to upgrade their PII450 processors to PIII550
> - the maximum supported by their Asus P2B motherboards.  One user hopes
> for a performance enhancement in his VR dictation program.  The other
> wants faster performance for her graphics work.  Both have 128MB RAM
> onboard and use large capacity (>/= 20GB) UDMA drives.
>
> Is a processor upgrade going to make a significant difference in either
> of these two cases (OS = Win98)?

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