Expaiin these benchmarks!!! 224
Fire wire is a compebreastor to USB, only faster. If you have USB use USB. If you need speed add FW...
Not sure what that means 'tag ram'? Manual says 0-512KB cache. Could I deduce form this statement "Many modern PCs, for example, are configured with a 256K L2 cache and tag RAM that is 8 bits wide. This is sufficient for caching up to 64 MB of main memory." That I have 128 MB? Euther way the more memory the merrier.
This is the first time I've tried building a system and I need some advice. First you should know...
Up until two weeks ago my Dell Dimension 4600 was riddled with viruses. I took it into a shop and they ended up wiping out the harddrive and...
Well if it works it will be money well spent, I imagine I will have to buy some thermal compound which will cost twice as much as the processor, which is shocking!! Doubling the speed for $3 just has to be worth it.
My son downloaded a file which was identified by AVG as containing the worm-spybot. When the warning flashed up he clicked on the continue button thinking that the warning referred to the...
Maybe but I will still have this system which is probably unsellable so I may as well make the most of it.
Well I will find that out next week, apart from anything else it will be interesting to see what effect the new processor has. In one benchmark it is a staggering 1492.2% in another a miniscule 1.8%. It seems to be in the graphical-multimedia area where the bottle neck is, perhaps, and that is the area which shows the greatest improvements.
Well some knowledge is transferable and I would rather fry this heap of junk than a new system :O)
Well I don't expect get anywhere near 14X in reality but it might just be enough to do some of the things my system curently struggles with. For example it is just not quick enough to play some .wmv files, I have to convert them to .mpeg with TMPGEnc, the only free program I could find, but that takes ages, upto and over an hour. Anyway it will be interesting to see what effect it has and I hope to do some 'benchmark tests' myself before I try the new CPU out. I am much encouraged by this comment from a recent post in this group "2000: AMD K6-2 333 mhz system from Medialand Systems in Concord. I loved this PC (blazingly fast compared to the Cyrix)" Of course that was a completely new system and I will be happy if it is half "blazingly fast " :O)
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