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Upgrading your CPU can have a huge impact, or none at all. If your CPU is causing a bottleneck in your system, due to other components being more efficient / powerful / capable of doing whatever tasks you are demanding of it, then an upgraded CPU could greatly increase the speed of your system.

However, if your CPU is more efficient / powerful / capable than other pieces of hardware (such as your GPU, harddrive, or ram), then upgrading your CPU may have little effect at all.

If you are having issues with your computer being too "slow", as I suspect you may be, then make sure that your CPU is actually the problem. When your computer is running slowly, check to see how much of your CPU is actually being used. If it is requiring 80-100% of it's capacity, then a CPU upgrade may be a good idea. If it is not, then look at your other components, and see how they are performing.

That said, the first step should always be to check for viruses, clean up your system, defrag (if you have a HDD...do NOT defrag a solid state drive), remove unnecessary programs, etc.

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The hardware and software will work faster. If there is a real difference in the processor speed.

Depends on the socket and the processor, if the gain will be worth it, sometimes

you will not see a large performance gain, you need to understand the system to make this conclusion.

Just because you go from 1.5 GHz to 2.0 GHz does not mean a big gain. There is a hundred things that are involved in a processor. If you know how to overclock your processor you will see a gain. Getting a processor with more cores, and a jump in

GHz, 1.7 tp 3.0Ghz, this you will see a large jump in processing ability.

Most hardware, such as CD ROM, hard drive, and ports, they are not affected by the processor. Mostly only motherboard hardware will see the benefit.

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