Re: Paging computeristi


"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xn0f5kc0r2m08y000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Doki wrote:

I've got a Duron 1.3 with 768 megs of RAM. It's got plenty of hard
drivage and that, but it's a bit slow. I've the opportunity to get
hold a Pentium 4 base unit (around 1.8GHz, 512mb of RAM, around £50,
Dell). Now, is that going to be a worthwhile increase in speed,

Not really, P4s aren't that much faster at lower clock speeds so I
doubt that it's that noticeable.

You'd think so, but I've just gotten up and the PC manages to hit 100% cpu usage fairly easily. I suspect it's down to XP being clogged up after a year or two of being installed, but TBH it's a fuckload easier to install XP on a clean machine than to organise all my ***, make a seperate windows partition and format that. WTF does windows take so long to move and copy files FFS?

and
is it worth the cash?

Not bad for fifty quid tho'.

What sort of speed is worth having? I assume a 2.8 would be considerably quicker, but what's a decent price for one?

The PC mainly gets hammered by opening up loads
of pages in Firefox whilst typing essays and by the occasional bit of
photoshoppage. Games are pretty much restricted to A-10 Cuba, so I
doubt that's a major influence...

Photoshop is a memory hog so you may want to chuck more memory at it.
Firefox's speed is mainly governed by you connection speed anyway so
that's not going to make a major difference...

I'd agree, but when I've got 40 or so tabs open, it all seems to grind to a halt. Do P4s take funny memory BTW? I don't want to end up spending huge sums on a £50 box to end up with something usable.

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