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From: Darklight on 3 Mar 2010 04:10 GT wrote: >> "yaugin" <yaugin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:bfe3164a-b45a-4440-964e-> >> 925445053161(a)l12g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> On Mar 2, 2:30 am, VanguardLH <V...(a)nguard.LH> wrote: >> > Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: >> > >> > > Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :) >> > >> > Um, other than games, just what software pushes the envelope to prod >> > users >> > to buy more powerful hardware? >> >> If you consider his question more carefully, that's what he was asking. > > And if you consider his reply more carefully, he is agreeing! playing devils advocate who amongst you would go back to a pIII 1 gHZ pc after having a dual or quad core. 2 to 3 gHZ pc. That should answer your question.
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 3 Mar 2010 04:12 > playing devils advocate who amongst you would go back to a pIII 1 gHZ pc > after having a dual or quad core. 2 to 3 gHZ pc. > That should answer your question. If you could give up HD video, DirectX games, .... :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33 ^ ^ 17:11:01 up 1:06 0 users load average: 1.00 1.04 1.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: GT on 3 Mar 2010 05:58 "Darklight" <nglennglen(a)netscape.net> wrote in message news:kdydnSuCf4zeuhPWnZ2dnUVZ8jJi4p2d(a)bt.com... > GT wrote: > >>> "yaugin" <yaugin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:bfe3164a-b45a-4440-964e-> >>> 925445053161(a)l12g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>> On Mar 2, 2:30 am, VanguardLH <V...(a)nguard.LH> wrote: >>> > Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: >>> > >>> > > Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :) >>> > >>> > Um, other than games, just what software pushes the envelope to prod >>> > users >>> > to buy more powerful hardware? >>> >>> If you consider his question more carefully, that's what he was asking. >> >> And if you consider his reply more carefully, he is agreeing! > > playing devils advocate who amongst you would go back to a pIII 1 gHZ pc > after having a dual or quad core. 2 to 3 gHZ pc. > > That should answer your question. Until fairly recently, we used PII 533s and PIIIs 866s with Win98 + MS Office 'old' for basic office day-to-day tasks. They were fast enough and did the job. We upgraded to new PCs last year, simply for reliability - the old ones *had* to start failing soon. The overhead of WinXP combined with the newer Office software, and we don't see any real performance improvement! I think documents probably load a little faster, but nothing worth writing home about. The new machines are quieter, smaller, have much larger capacity and are probably lower power draw, but we are not using 10% of their potential. And we are back to the original post here - we need faster hardware to cope with the newer, higher demand software that we 'choose' to run.
From: GT on 3 Mar 2010 06:00 "John McGaw" <Nobody(a)Nowh.ere> wrote in message news:NC9jn.365930$oC1.2148(a)en-nntp-01.dc1.easynews.com... > No. Not nearly enough power for me. I run two i7, one Q6600, and an old P4 > 24X7 as part of a distributed processing project supporting medical and > energy research. I could use much more speed from my machines. Or more > machines but my electric bills would surely suffer then. > > http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp You need one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos =spJ1nqFDR-8&v=adfgMWQB_6o
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 3 Mar 2010 08:21
On 3/2/2010 22:52, John McGaw wrote: > No. Not nearly enough power for me. I run two i7, one Q6600, and an old > P4 24X7 as part of a distributed processing project supporting medical > and energy research. I could use much more speed from my machines. Or > more machines but my electric bills would surely suffer then. niche, minority! :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33 ^ ^ 21:21:01 up 5:16 1 user load average: 1.01 1.05 1.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa |