Not much visual and no noise change, but I switched to a Core2Duo E6400 and an Asus P5B-E for my HTPC. Not needed for DVDs and light browsing, but the Asus P4GPL-X board I had and loved, died on me the day before Christmas. I quickly picked up a DFI Expert 939 board, a 3800+ AMD CPU, and started installing Windows, only to find out that the DFI hates my Kingston RAM... on Christmas day! After a lot of frustration, it finally worked with VERY loose memory timings for 3 months, randomly stuttering during playback, not being able to resume from sleep or allowing me to stop the HDDs, and then died, on a Saturday of course... After lots of swaps and tests I took it back to the shop I got it from, where they confirmed it was dead. They asked what I wanted to do, replace it or switch. I asked if they could take back the processor as well, and they did!
Now the dual core goodness is in my HTPC. Everything worked quickly without problems, I even used the old 533 DDR2 from the TNN case (where I have 2GB now), and I slightly overclocked to 2,4GHZ.
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