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processors one of the main things in your computer but do you ever think how fast these things are getting these days.once upon a time a computer with a 300mhz processor could get you quite popular play every game and basically do everything modern.i bought my p.c about a year ago and it has a 1.8ghz p4 processor.But now chips are going up to speeds of about 2.4ghz.Then theres the cost processors dont come cheap.Ask yourself do home computers need to be this fast???
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Turbonutter wrote:
> Poor wobby? I've got an overclocked XP2000 mate :)
...thanks to Reaper ;)
it's funny how you say "Real work" I love it when people say that.
you don't have to use it 100% to get the effects from it, faster CPU gets the job done faster, thats all you need to know, if your using it to 100% you should probably get a faster CPU, you must be doing quite a lot of stuff to be using the whole processor up!
> Poor wobby? I've got an overclocked XP2000 mate :)
...thanks to Reaper ;)
it's funny how you say "Real work" I love it when people say that.
you don't have to use it 100% to get the effects from it, faster CPU gets the job done faster, thats all you need to know, if your using it to 100% you should probably get a faster CPU, you must be doing quite a lot of stuff to be using the whole processor up!
Poor wobby? I've got an overclocked XP2000 mate :)
The thing is, real computer users are usually processing large amounts of graphics in the GIMP/Photoshop, compiling videos, displaying complicated graphics etc. Real Linux users spend half their lives waiting for new and extremely useful software to install - either using Windows-style precom binaries or compiling their own - maybe even compiling their own software, as me, Luke and Richard have done many times.
Whereas Joe Public launches Word 2000.
The thing is, real computer users are usually processing large amounts of graphics in the GIMP/Photoshop, compiling videos, displaying complicated graphics etc. Real Linux users spend half their lives waiting for new and extremely useful software to install - either using Windows-style precom binaries or compiling their own - maybe even compiling their own software, as me, Luke and Richard have done many times.
Whereas Joe Public launches Word 2000.
Turbonutter wrote:
> Of course they need to be fast, but to be honest, giving a 1.8ghz chip
> to someone like you is a joke.
harsh, but hey....
> I'm not being funny here, I hate the way people buy a new computer
> with the latest gear, and all they *ever* do is surf the web and maybe
> play a little Half-Life. I bet your processor has never hit 100% load
> for more than 5 seconds once, unless you're running Seti or UD.
poor robby wobby
> And then you get people like me, Luke, Richard (Shaw), Phil, who
> really need fast processors to get actual real stuff done fast.
such as??
> I've got nothing against people who want the best, but companies
> making people think they want these chips is sickening.
I agree totally here. my PIIIe Celeron 900Mhz is more than enough for me, though I could do with more than 128Mb RAM for Windows XP....
> Of course they need to be fast, but to be honest, giving a 1.8ghz chip
> to someone like you is a joke.
harsh, but hey....
> I'm not being funny here, I hate the way people buy a new computer
> with the latest gear, and all they *ever* do is surf the web and maybe
> play a little Half-Life. I bet your processor has never hit 100% load
> for more than 5 seconds once, unless you're running Seti or UD.
poor robby wobby
> And then you get people like me, Luke, Richard (Shaw), Phil, who
> really need fast processors to get actual real stuff done fast.
such as??
> I've got nothing against people who want the best, but companies
> making people think they want these chips is sickening.
I agree totally here. my PIIIe Celeron 900Mhz is more than enough for me, though I could do with more than 128Mb RAM for Windows XP....
Of course they need to be fast, but to be honest, giving a 1.8ghz chip to someone like you is a joke.
I'm not being funny here, I hate the way people buy a new computer with the latest gear, and all they *ever* do is surf the web and maybe play a little Half-Life. I bet your processor has never hit 100% load for more than 5 seconds once, unless you're running Seti or UD.
And then you get people like me, Luke, Richard (Shaw), Phil, who really need fast processors to get actual real stuff done fast.
I've got nothing against people who want the best, but companies making people think they want these chips is sickening.
I'm not being funny here, I hate the way people buy a new computer with the latest gear, and all they *ever* do is surf the web and maybe play a little Half-Life. I bet your processor has never hit 100% load for more than 5 seconds once, unless you're running Seti or UD.
And then you get people like me, Luke, Richard (Shaw), Phil, who really need fast processors to get actual real stuff done fast.
I've got nothing against people who want the best, but companies making people think they want these chips is sickening.
Havn't you got your own recover software? you can get it from download.com it's not always helpful and if you loose the info on your hdd you'll need to put it into another PC (with the recoverer software) to get it back.
It's a slow process though. We were going to be charged £100 to get our lost data back, it wasn't even our fault, they put a faulty moherboard in, we complained they took it back and wiped our hdd. they've gone bankrupt now though.
It's a slow process though. We were going to be charged £100 to get our lost data back, it wasn't even our fault, they put a faulty moherboard in, we complained they took it back and wiped our hdd. they've gone bankrupt now though.
On that note, here's a hint for Windows XP users. If you ever get the following alert when opening files from Windows Explorer, click Cancel:
"Choosing to 'Open with....' 27 items at once may take a long time and cause your computer to respond slowly. Do you wish to continue?"
Clearly the number doesn't matter, but I know for a fact my computer can't handle 27. Last time this happened I was trying to load 27 files into one program, so I said OK. The computer crashed so I restarted it. When I did, the HDD was messed up since it had dumped bad data on the disk - and it cost me £40 to have recovered. It could have been a lot worse though...
"Choosing to 'Open with....' 27 items at once may take a long time and cause your computer to respond slowly. Do you wish to continue?"
Clearly the number doesn't matter, but I know for a fact my computer can't handle 27. Last time this happened I was trying to load 27 files into one program, so I said OK. The computer crashed so I restarted it. When I did, the HDD was messed up since it had dumped bad data on the disk - and it cost me £40 to have recovered. It could have been a lot worse though...
Depends what your using them for.
A 300Mhz PC would do most things a 1.8Ghz PC would do (except for many games) but it would do it a lot slower.
If your in a rush to get out and need to load a document and print it off a fast computer could load anything up ...etc better than a smaller PC.
Faster processors are good for me as i've always got a few heavy programs open, sometimes a music program and raw Audio doesn't like a slow PC.
A 300Mhz PC would do most things a 1.8Ghz PC would do (except for many games) but it would do it a lot slower.
If your in a rush to get out and need to load a document and print it off a fast computer could load anything up ...etc better than a smaller PC.
Faster processors are good for me as i've always got a few heavy programs open, sometimes a music program and raw Audio doesn't like a slow PC.
depends what you need it for.
i do web development on my pc (programming rather than graphical) so my 8 month old Intel Pentium III Celeron 900Mhz is quite sufficient.
if you want to play games and intensive things like that, then yes, a more powerful PC would be required. If i was going to host sites on my pc (i.e. not just for development) then I would buy a new PC with more RAM and a faster processor.
i do web development on my pc (programming rather than graphical) so my 8 month old Intel Pentium III Celeron 900Mhz is quite sufficient.
if you want to play games and intensive things like that, then yes, a more powerful PC would be required. If i was going to host sites on my pc (i.e. not just for development) then I would buy a new PC with more RAM and a faster processor.
processors one of the main things in your computer but do you ever think how fast these things are getting these days.once upon a time a computer with a 300mhz processor could get you quite popular play every game and basically do everything modern.i bought my p.c about a year ago and it has a 1.8ghz p4 processor.But now chips are going up to speeds of about 2.4ghz.Then theres the cost processors dont come cheap.Ask yourself do home computers need to be this fast???
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