Re: I got a new pc!
76. Kaby lake celerons with turbo boost, despite being dual cores, the fact that they go up to something like 2.5 GHZ, they are not terrible. I used one, and it got around browsing OK. I wouldn't do much more with them, however. They perform very similar to my kaby lake pentium. I have 4 threads, that has 2. That has turbo, I don't. So it kind of levels it out. Both machines had 4 GB and EMMC, so it's a pretty fair compare. And before anyone asks me why I'd look at such garbage: 1) It wasn't mine. 2) You can pick up such a thing for as little as £150, and they beat a chrome book any day. If they last you just under 2 years, you managed to escape college restrictions, and having to dual boot them. I mean I didn't say that.
Having said that, I'm refusing to put my sandy bridge celeron with the code name of b815, above windows 7. Anything above 7 and performance goes down the shitter, even with an SSD on that one.
I have an HP compaq 6715b, with an AMD turion X2, it was going to go in the trash. Ran win10 1511, 2 GB at like 800 MHZ? 150 GB, what I assume to be original sea gate drive. , due to being extremely hot. So I bought it home, and started to troubleshoot. I first noticed the horrible performance, and the fact that the temps themselves weren't reaching peak critical temp, but it was indeed going with full blast, and it was, shall we say, warm? Then I went on HP's site, and found out that this comp was XP through vista, It has a bios dated back to 2007. I then asked a sighted, and found an XP professional OEM product key at the bottom. So, since I always wanted an old toy for backwards compatibility, and didn't want a virtual machine, I threw XP professional on it, installed the drivers off HP's site, and I have what seems to be a way over powered machine for the OS that is on it. It's nippy. It gets around, runs dinosaur apps no problem, (even old basic audio editors run) and the temps are around 50 to 60 degrees, with the fan barely going, and average CPU usage of 10% or below. And that is what I call giving it a second life. Having said all that, it will handle win7 no problem with it's crappy original drive, I just don't need that machine to run 7, plus no product key.
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