wow.....

[Sprint]

for a fair while now i've been running an AMD Athlon XP 2300 with 256mb RAM

just scored a couple of surplus cases as payment for a job, so i've just built 2 out of 3.....

going from my old setup to the new one, 3.4ghz P4 dual core and 3gb RAM......

my reaction? :eek::twisted:

[flagg]

:)

I did a similar thing about 12 months ago, replacing my Dell 8000 (800 mhz, 20Gb disk and 384MB RAM) with a MacBook Pro - 2.66 Core Duo, 4GB RAM etc.

Its a good feeling, isn't it?

Mind you, the Dell 8k was near to $8000 when new (In c. 2001) so even at that price I guess I got value out of it :)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

lotza ram = :cool::burnrubber:

[subasurf]

I've been using bunky old PCs and laptops at home for years now. Last computer I bought was in 2006 and it's slow as hell now and the mobo has given up the ghost.

Recently at work I built up an epic i7 930 PC at work with buttloads of RAM as a GIS Mapping workstation for some of our Geos.

....it's epic....:eek::eek::eek:

[Sprint]

just to rub it in, all it really cost me was a couple of hours of my time :-D

[HangOver]

my desktop work pc is an i7 10kHDD 1gb-video 8gb ram :D
i just got the demo system on friday for my upgrade too :twisted:
@ home is dcore still cant have everything

even if you have a crappy old pc best thing you can do is reformat every year or so, you really notice the difference


btw good onya scoring a freeby dcore i have a 2.4 at home and fine it good enough

[vnx205]

.. .. ... ...

even if you have a crappy old pc best thing you can do is reformat every year or so, you really notice the difference

..... .. .. ...



Or else you could use Linux and have the same sort of improvement. It is free too. :D

[lro11]

I find that microsoft is the limiting factor for performance. I run an I7 with 12gb of ram and windows is just not good enough

[zuno555]

.............. 12gb of ram and windows is just not good enough


Sorry, have to ask. Why do you have 12gb ram? BIG video editing? Big CAD / 3D modeling programs? Running about 6 virtual machines at once? How much of that 12gb are you actually using and how much sits idle?

Besides that I can not fathom so much ram. Windows 7 itself doesn't need it, and games don't need it. (yet)

My good ol Quad6600 has 2gb. Runs any current game fine, tho admittedly will struggle on next gen of games, not that I play them much.
Runs Win7 quite well, with all the basics running at once. More and more programs using multiple cores so video editing / compression runs pretty fast on 4 cores.

Just out of interest....

Maybe you are running 12gb ram but only 32bit version of Windows hahaha (sorry, just kidding :D)

[Quarks]

I've been using bunky old PCs and laptops at home for years now. Last computer I bought was in 2006 and it's slow as hell now and the mobo has given up the ghost.

Recently at work I built up an epic i7 930 PC at work with buttloads of RAM as a GIS Mapping workstation for some of our Geos.

....it's epic....:eek::eek::eek:

:eek::eek: Strangely enough I built myself an i7 930 with 4GB RAM (will take 12GB eventually), to be used for a similar purpose! :cool:

:)

[mowog]

I run an i7 with 12gb Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

When batching jobs in Adobe Lightroom the system is actually quicker than it was with 6gb.

Besides ram is cheap why not fill the slots.

[lro11]

I run an i7 with 12gb Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

When batching jobs in Adobe Lightroom the system is actually quicker than it was with 6gb.

Besides ram is cheap why not fill the slots.

I agree

[Quarks]

I run an i7 with 12gb Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

When batching jobs in Adobe Lightroom the system is actually quicker than it was with 6gb.

Besides ram is cheap why not fill the slots.


I agree

RAM might be cheap, but I am cheaper! :p :angel:

It was the best I could do for a grand. Add that I'm running linux (with windows XP in a VM when I need it) - and the performance is better than the alternative, so I'm happy. ;)

:)