Re: jaws and processor speed:
- From: trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:46:07 -0500
For this answer I would say anything around 3 and below your good to go for
prices. When you go past 3 you get into a architecture that xp can do, but
not many other apps. Besides another few months and there price will be right.
At 10:23 AM 1/16/04 -0500, you wrote:
>ah, so if I run as much as I can out board, how low can the speed get and
>still be reasonable or as I am really trying to get it, how fast is too
>fast?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "trouble" <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:49 AM
>Subject: Re: jaws and processor speed:
>
>
>Well I run a athilon 1.47, 512 ram abit k7 board with a gforce 64 mb
>onboard video, and don't have much of a slow down except in the op. Because
>of a lot of my test work I do I still run 98 and that makes me run a memory
>manager, but I still got speed the manager just keeps me from rebooting all
>the time witch 98 is prone to. I have had xp on the box and still no slow
>down.
>With a nice chip and 512 ddr you shouldn't see any lack of speed on xp, but
>if your going to use a lot of the on board stuff then like I said 2 gig
>chips are pricing nice now.
>
>At 08:22 AM 1/16/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >but what about the processor speed, which is what I am after. I ask again
> >because jaws is the bottle neck here and I have seen fast systems with
> >eloquence slow to a crawl even with an audio adaptor that is not built in.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "trouble" <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:08 AM
> >Subject: Re: jaws and processor speed:
> >
> >
> >I would say anything around 512 ddr should work good, and with the prices
> >of chips you may want to think of 2 gig or higher depending on board.
> >
> >At 07:39 AM 1/16/04 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I'm looking for benchmarks for a specification I'm working up to build a
> >pc.
> > >I want to know the most benifitial ram speed with jaws as the main
> > >consideration and of course, I will want to watch and maybe burn dvds,
>burn
> > >cds, run broad band and do streaming and such as well as word processing
> >but
> > >not a lot of high end stuff and not open too much at once. I will be
>using
> > >an external synthesizer but want a good audio card. I will be getting a
> > >32-bit card with a gig of ram on it if I can just to take the video off
>the
> > >processor as much as possible. I don't need a 128 bit card because I am
> >not
> > >doing cad/cam or high end gaming or modeling super sonic air craft or
> > >sending a space ship to the moon at least not yet.
> > >
> > >So, I might actually be quite comfortable with a 1.6 gb processor for
> > >instance unless all that high powered stuff I want including my 80 gb
>fast
> > >hd and my 40x optical drives just won't be supported by it. I don't want
> > >the pc to crawl, I don't want jaws to pull the system down too much
>either.
> > >
> > >I'm asking this because I have seen a lot of systems that run super fast
> > >without jaws but quite slowly with jaws and some that run super fast
> >without
> > >jaws and even though slower with jaws, still pretty fast so It got me to
> > >thinking that some bench marking might be in order becuase I don't want
>to
> > >spend a lot of money for nothing, on he other hand, if a 3.3 ghz
>processor
> > >will enhance the performance of jaws, well...
> > >
> > >
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> >Tim
> >trouble
> >
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>Tim
>trouble
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