Thread: wow.....

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

lotza ram =

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....

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

my desktop work pc is an i7 10kHDD 1gb-video 8gb ram
i just got the demo system on friday for my upgrade too
@ 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

Originally Posted by HangOver

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

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

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

Originally Posted by lro11

.............. 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 )