Thanks for the link, that's a little stash of information.

For your amusement -   Your P4 @ 361 slightly trumps my P4 @ 332.  All things being relative, an i3 @ 5143 looks pretty tasty and makes me think an i7 would be totally wasted on me

Too bad you will have to go back to 7 in April or risk using an unprotected computed since MS is dropping support for XP. That's all that keeps me from using XP. That and I like the folder organization in 7 better.

The '5008' current rig is an early i7 920 2.67 Ghz ....and it's the main bottleneck when running FSX [Flight Sim].

I think when I 'upgrade' next it'll be something that scores around 20,000 ....

Hey Jafo I bet you would not mind having that AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core CPU. Scores at 10457.

The i7 4960X is 7th on the list...and better bang for buck at 14185 than any higher rated...

Yeah but I never did have a strong love for Intel processors.

Wrong. MS has backtracked on that.

Microsoft has announced this that it will continue to provide anti-malware support for Windows XP until July 2015 - a little over one year after its end-of-life date on April 8.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-backtrack-on-windows-xp-security-offer-malware-support-1215734

XP loses product support, but not security support. There is a deadline for being able to install MSE on it though.

Nice pick-up, Paul..........to use another British phrase related to your use, in the first instance.........I would say your 'find' is "the dogs bollocks" 

For those of you that are not familiar with such 'Britishisms'.................http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dog's%20bollocks.html

BTW, my cpu score for this old dog.......

Ya it's always good to feel like you get your money's worth on an upgrade. On the other hand, if you keep scratching up machines for $6... well it kind of takes the edge off

Now the conundrum....

The MoBo has a PCI-E slot ....and I have a 'spare' XFX GTX285 'black' Graphics card.... that'd get that WEI up to more like 5.9...

Except for 2 things....the power supply is one of those 'compact things' and no way big enough to push the GPU....

...and the darn card is about 2 miles too long for the case....so everything would need to be dumped into another box....

I 'could' chuck it all into Terry's Lian Li....and she'd end up with a processor that was 4 times better....and not relying on an AGP card....

Just need to pop in a few sata power adapters...and rethink a few other bits.

It'd give me the chance to clean everything thoroughly too....

That old machine would have been the better part of three grand .... and now it's to be upgraded thanks to a $6.40 purchase from a 'junk' shop....

My yard sale special started out as an eMachines T3104 until I yanked its guts and tossed it into a custom case with side window and blue led fans that I salvaged. The front of the case looks like a BMW Coupe. I think it dates back to '02-'05. With the big "e" boot logo disabled, you would never know  it from a "real" computer. The VIA chipset absolutely refused to play well with a modern OS, so it stays XP. The FX 5200 does OK, but if the mobo wasn't AGP, I'd toss my 8800GT GFX card in it as well. The old dog will probably outlive me.

It's now happily residing in the Lian Li case.... with a suitable PSU to run the GTX 285...

WEI is now 5.5 ....

Scores are...

5.8

5.5

7.4

7.4

5.9

Best I'd be able to do is 5.8 ...if I up the ram.

Not worth it, really...

Nope.