What Speed PC Do You Run?

[march 10]

Do the people who have got nearly top of the range stuff notice much difference compared to the slightly older hardware, although I guess you might not have had chance to compare?

 

I built a pc about 6 months ago with a Athlon 2800xp+ (or whatever they are called), 512mb ram and 80gb hd for about £250 and compared to other more powerful pcs I've used there isn't that much difference. I suppose if you are doing CAD or Video Editing or something you might notice but otherwise it doesn't make much difference.

[adlinds 10]

I only notice any difference if I have about 5 programs running at once, which I often do. If you don't do any gaming or editing etc I probably wouldnt bother upgrading, I don't think you would get value for money.

[adaline 10]

Bought it a while ago...

 

P4 2.8ghz (not HT one)

1GB ram (533mhz i think)

Radeon 9200, 128MB

40GB HD

DVDRW/CDRW

19" CRT

Sony CMT-NE5 for sound

And its quiet, dead quiet

[Sidla 10]

This would be more interesting if it was 'How fast was your first PC?'

 

Mine was 25MHz. How far we've come...

[march 10]

Mine was 40mhz I think it was a 486 DX40?? If such a thing exists. Definitely a 486 and DX. It was a long time ago! Before that I had an Amstrad something or other, I haven't got a clue about speed

[Viper_GTSR 10]

This would be more interesting if it was 'How fast was your first PC?'

 

Yeah, it might, problem is I cant remeber mine, someone could start that poll I suppose.

 

Do the people who have got nearly top of the range stuff notice much difference compared to the slightly older hardware, although I guess you might not have had chance to compare?

 

Well I for one, did notice a difference but I came From a P3 750MHz

And to go straight to 3.4GHz makes a big difference. I also run demanding games quite often and there are vast differences in performance.

Also like adlinds said, if you run multiple programs often, there is also a big difference. Now I can run photoshop, iTunes, Mozzila and

a few smaller programs without my PC struggling to stay stable.

 

I'm going to start looking around for some extra cooling and monitoring systems, keep you updated:thumbsup:

[jonhanson 10]

waiting to upgrade but at the moment as follows:

 

athlon xp-m2500 with the good stepping!! o/c to 2.63ghz on 1.725v prime stable!!

 

Asus A7nex-e deluxe

1gb ddr400

fx5200 grpx

dual layer 16x dvd

120gb hdd, 80gb exernal

 

and all the rest.

 

Purely built for the purpose of encoding and ripping hence no good grpx!!

[t020 11]

Originally posted by vidster

A bit like saying "Who lives on the best estate in Sheffield" don't you think?.

 

Slightly pedantic IMO t020.....Sorry

 

 

I don't live on an estate, thanks.

 

Besides, I've never said that or anything like that.

[Rich 12]

Originally posted by t020

I don't live on an estate, thanks.

 

Besides, I've never said that or anything like that.

 

You DO slag off people who live on estates though, especially residents of a certain estate in S2

[vidster 10]

Originally posted by t020

I don't live on an estate, thanks.

 

Besides, I've never said that or anything like that.

 

Ohh...You must have a doppelganger on here then

 

 

But bringing this thread back on topic:

 

I'm running a lowly 2.8GB Celery (Celeron D) processor in this laptop.

768MB RAM

40GB HD

DVDRW/CDRW (never been used)

 

I only use it for browsing and recently started playing with Dreamweaver MX so it's fine for me

[t020 11]

Originally posted by Rich

You DO slag off people who live on estates though, especially residents of a certain estate in S2

 

Quote me on that and I'll happily accept it. However, to the best of my knowledge I don't think I've ever "slagged off" any residents of any council estate. Just because I don't tow the PC line of pretending that all is good on the Manor (when it clearly isn't) does not equate to me slagging off the residents.

[sccsux 10]

Originally posted by Sidla

This would be more interesting if it was 'How fast was your first PC?'

 

 

Indeed it would.

 

 

The first PC I remember owning (about 1980) was a sirius (Victor PC II) which had an 8088 processor, 640K memory, a "massive" 21M hard drive and ran at a whopping 8MHz. I did have a couple of others, but can't for the life of me remember waht they were called:(.

 

Found a pic and info on it too here, takes me back abit seeing that:cool:.

 

 

BOT: This PC is an AMD Duron 600, 256M memory, 21G HD, and runs @ 600MHz - about ready for an upgrade, but it is a very stable PC (on almost constantly since 2002;)) running Win 98 (still).