Re: jaws and processor speed:
- From: "Dave McElroy, WA6BEF" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:42:54 -0800
Well I'm working with a three-year-old machine that was a hot number when
new, AMD Athlon 1.2G chip and can't remember if I started with 128 or 256
megs of RAM.
By today's standards, the speed is now rather wimpy, but Jaws runs well.
Now I've not tried JAWS 5.0 on my older machine, which has an older AMD K6
chip, at I think 700 megs, but 4.51 works well there.
At 07:39 AM 1/16/2004 -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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