I got it to speed up rendering times; unless your graphics card is used in the rendering process, it's the CPU that does all the hard work when rendering and faster is obviously better. Looking back at some emails, I used my i5-720 with WinXP 32bit for around 5 years, until XP "died" and I moved to Windows 7.
My recent captures (same i5 and Win 10 64bit) have not dropped one frame capturing into Lagarith. I'm using an ES-15 in the workflow (make the more stable?), and there is not even a hint that the computer can't cope. I do have 12gb of RAM though, which probably helps with capturing. The CPU use is low, and I can do other things at the same time.
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