Need Help in comparison with Old and New PC in speed.

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layhoma

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I just purchased a new desktop PC. I don't play games and mostly use it for video codec conversions and video editing. In layman term, is my new PC at least twice the speed in accomplishing my tasks? Thanks in Advance!

Old: HP Pavilion Slimline s5-1008hk Desktop PC

MOTHERBOARD:
Chipset: Intel H61
Memory sockets: 2 x DDR3
Front side bus speeds: 2.5 GT/s
Processor socket: LGA 1155
PROCESSOR:
Pentium G620
Operating speed: Up to 2.6 GHz
Number of cores: 2
Socket: LGA1155
Bus speed: DMI (Direct Media Interface) - 2.5GT/s
MEMORY:
Amount: 4 GB
Speed: PC3-10600 MB/sec
Type: DDR3-1333
VIDEO GRAPHICS:
AMD Radeon HD 6450
Interface: PCI Express x16
512 MB onboard memory

NEW: HP ProDesk 400 G1 SFF Desktop PC

PROCESSOR:
Chipset
Intel® H81 Express
Processor family
Intel® Core™ i5 processor
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-4570 with Intel HD Graphics 4600 (3.2 GHz, 6 MB cache, 4 cores)
Memory, standard
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB)
Memory slots
2 DIMM
GRAPHICS
Intel HD Graphics 4400
 
Wouldn't you be better off asking this before buying it? ;)

But, sure. You have double the processors than before which are also at a higher clock rate and have higher IPC than the previous, therefore giving you a noticeably-more-than-double performance level.

Do you feel reassured yet? :)
 
However, in reality, you may not experience twice the performance in actual use since another factor in your computer's performance is the disk drive. If both systems have similar disk drives then you may not experience any performance boost for anything that involves disk access.
 
strollin said:
However, in reality, you may not experience twice the performance in actual use since another factor in your computer's performance is the disk drive. If both systems have similar disk drives then you may not experience any performance boost for anything that involves disk access.
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Sorry I'm a computer idiot. Thanks for the heads up. May I ask what sort of work that would require disk drive's performance? Data transfer or reading? Anything else ?
 
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Virtually everything you do on a computer starts by reading a program or data from the disk drive and many operations end with writing data to the disk drive. During video editing, the video must first be read from the disk drive then written back to save the changes. Temporary files may also be created & written, then re-read during processing.
 
strollin said:
Virtually everything you do on a computer starts by reading a program or data from the disk drive and many operations end with writing data to the disk drive. During video editing, the video must first be read from the disk drive then written back to save the changes. Temporary files may also be created & written, then re-read during processing.
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Thanks. One last question, based from the specifications I listed above, do both desktop share similar disc drive performance wise? I'm having this uncanny feeling what I normally do isn't that noticeably faster than my old PC. It could just be my imagination. :confused: Thanks in Advance!
 
strollin said:
However, in reality, you may not experience twice the performance in actual use since another factor in your computer's performance is the disk drive. If both systems have similar disk drives then you may not experience any performance boost for anything that involves disk access.
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For video encoding he should notice less than half the time to complete his jobs, unless he is still using some crappy single threaded application.
 
layhoma said:
Thanks. One last question, based from the specifications I listed above, do both desktop share similar disc drive performance wise? I'm having this uncanny feeling what I normally do isn't that noticeably faster than my old PC. It could just be my imagination. :confused: Thanks in Advance!
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You didnt list the speed of the drives. They might both be 5400 RPM drives, or the newer one may be 7200 RPM, which is pretty standard
 
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