Re: new computer buying

  • From: "Sunshine" <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:54:59 -0500

please explain what that kind of bus is and what it means?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: RE: new computer buying


> Sean & Gene,
> You can also get a real boost by having a duel bus (front and back)
> motherboard. My motherboard went out and I installed a new duel bus
> motherboard and - wow - Jaws was much faster and very smooth with a 1.2
> GHZ Athlon processor. CYS...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jean Menzies
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:22 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: new computer buying
>
>
> Hi Sean
>
> Thanks for that tidbit of information.  Now I know how to relate the bus
> speed number.  Hard drive speed, I'm looking at 7200.
>
> Jean
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean M McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:04 PM
> Subject: Re: new computer buying
>
>
> > Wow my 400 mhz computer seems really old, untill about a month ago I
> > had xp-pro running on a 450.  For newness I see your point.  If you
> > get a fast processor get it with a faster hardrive.  Get a faster
> > processor with a faster buss speed.  If you see something like 2.0GHZ
> > with 500MHZ buss, that's ok.  You probably don't need to know what the
>
> > buss is, but you won't get any increase in performance from a
> > processor unless your buss speed is 1/4 of your processor speed.  This
>
> > is just going off of some advise I got from a guy at ibm about 5 years
>
> > ago, so take it for what it's worth.  I know that a friend of mine
> > runns a computer with twice the processor speed as mine same buss
> > speed and there's little difference.
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