• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

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My computer is getting old and sluggish. There's no room for expansion so thinking about a new one
My question, what's the most important thing when choosing a processor
is it the processor family ( example: Intel Core 2 Duo vs Intel Core 2 Quad vs Intel Core i5)
or is the core speed more important (example 2.66GHz vs 2.93)
Hope this isn't confusing & Thanks :ack2:

 
Im liking this dual-core I have right now. Im use to building my own stuff and running on linux. This computer was my Christmas gift.

Found it

I have the previous model at the shop and it really sucks, so anything less than this sucks!..:rofl1: But for web surfing, coding and graphic artistry this thing is like a dream. Until now I have had nothing to say about windows or hp.
 
Actually it's a combination of factors, since it's the TOTAL throughput of all the components combined that make the perception of speed noticeable. Heck, even having a monitor with super fast refresh will make a substantial difference.

Multiprocessor and multi-threading processors are more beneficial when you are doing multiple concurrent tasks on your computer. Which honestly, with the way most operating systems work these days by doing house cleaning in the background, can be a substantial drain on processing power. Then there is the old adage that the more RAM the better. Which goes hand in hand with the above mentioned situation with multiple processor threads running. Each task the processor is doing is going to require RAM for each program. The important issue here is to make certain you have enough RAM for each process to use ONLY the RAM and not have to use the disk drive as virtual RAM. Hard drives are much slower then system RAM, so any task requiring disk accesses in order to operate will run much slower than if they could remain solely in RAM.

Then you have the hard disk itself. Faster is MUCH better, no doubt about it. The new SSDs (solid state disks) are wonderful for speeding up loading times for startup with the operating system and also for loading applications.

Anyway, that's kind of the short version, but you can likely see what I mean about the entire throughput of the system needing to be considered.... Even issues like the speed of your graphics card or the network interface card for internet related activities all play a role in how you perceive the SPEED of your computer.
 
Hope this is better then the old pentium 4 machine
Just ordered:
Windows 7 Home
2.8 GHz Core i7 860 Processor
8GB DDR3 SDRAM expandable to 16GB
1GB ATI Radeon Graphics Card
1TB 7200 SATA Hard Drive
 
Yeah, I think you will see a noticeable improvement with that new system. :thumbsup:
 
Did you buy a complete system with those items or parts to build?

I have found I can always get a better system by building from ground up. Also your able to change different parts at will.

Scav.
:wavey:
 
Buying a boxed system is called economics over quality .

Our first system was a Packard Hell oops I mean Bell . Never bought another manufactured system after that.

Scav.
:wavey:
 
I was indeed a kiddo. My father got it for me so I could read my Sherlock Holmes books on it. (my brothers were stealing and hiding my paperbacks)
That thing was so neat. I really wish I had one still
 
Heck, my first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer that I got in 1978. I remember getting it with the optional 32K of RAM and the salesman telling me that this was more memory then I would EVER need in my entire lifetime. :lmao:

Backups were done on audio tape at a sizzling 1200 baud. Most modems were running at 300 baud back then, so this was really hot stuff. Imagine reading text scrolling on the screen in realtime and you will have an idea of the speed we are talking about.

It was it HUGE upgrade when I got my floppy disk drive setup added on. If none of you have ever seen 8 inch floppy disks, you probably don't realize exactly WHY they were called "floppies".
 
Rich Z said:
It was it HUGE upgrade when I got my floppy disk drive setup added on. If none of you have ever seen 8 inch floppy disks, you probably don't realize exactly WHY they were called "floppies".
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You bet. I remember those 8 inch flooppies. Back in my youth I worked in a Data Center and we had Key-to-Disk machines with those babies.
 
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