How old is this PC you have Windows 10 on? I've found it to run pretty snappily
on any dual core box or laptop as old as 2005, as long as it can have at least
4 gig RAM. Win 10 is the first version of Windows to have *lower* system
hardware requirements than its predecessors, and this time those minimal
requirements were not of the "Sure, it'll work, but you won't be able to stand
to use it." variety.
Win 10 will run-ish with only 2 gig RAM, even the 64 bit version. But if the PC
tops out at 2 gig it's best to stick to 32 bit, in any operating system. What's
your CPU? If it's only single core, that's the biggest bottleneck for Win 10.
It's very much optimized for 2 or more CPUs or cores. The good news there is
that many older dual core CPUs are dirt cheap. Under $20, often way under.
A Core 2 Duo or Quad will run Windows 10 nicely. The Core Duo series that
preceded it? Not so well. The 2 is important. Any 2+ core AMD CPU from the
Phenom II series up will run Windows 10 at a decent pace. No previous version
of Windows has ever run so well on 10+ year old hardware.
Run CPUID on it to find out exactly what the board and CPU are, then it can be
found out if a cheap CPU and RAM upgrade is possible to get it up to tolerable
speed. I dunno how well (or if) Win 10 tolerates upgrading from a single to
multi-core CPU. I do recall that it took some tinkering to change up from a
single to 2+ core CPU on XP without having to reinstall.
Places like Newegg, Tiger Direct and others have surplus and refurbished Dell,
HP and other OEM PCs that are cheap, a couple of years old, and will run
Windows 10 very well, most of them shipped with Win 10.
I just built a Ryzen 5 3400G box for a client. 16 gig RAM and a 1TB NVME style
SSD. Boots in about 30 seconds. I haven't timed it yet but it is *fast*. The
SSD benchmark with ATTO topped out around 3,000 megabytes per second. Total
cost, including an OEM copy of Win 10 Pro x64 and a refurbished 32" HP 2K
monitor was around $850. The most difficult part was finding a case with two
5.25" bays *without* a silly front door, *without* silly tempered glass or
clear plastic side panels, and *without* silly RGB LED lighting. Still couldn't
come up with a decent mATX Socket AM4 motherboard that didn't have integrated
RGB LED lighting control. Turned those off in BIOS first thing after assembling
the parts.
On Monday, October 14, 2019, 10:56:41 PM MDT, Gene Heskett
<[email protected]> wrote:
But whats the cost of that level of integration? Which will be paid for
by the seat. Whoever that IT guy is that can do that, likes to eat and
drive nice cars. I've one windows 10 home edition pc, and its at least
10 minutes to boot and run the application I bought it for. But because
that app needs superuser to run it, and windows makes it extremely
non-obvious how to get "root", I have to learn how to do that all over
again each time. And success at acessing that part of the menu
apparently is controlled by the phase of the rip tide in the Bay of
Fundy and which side of your mouth is holding a wad of Kentucky Twist.
And I don't use tobacco now since 30 years ago. If it wasn't for that
app, there would not be a windows pc on my property. I don't have time
for that level of obnoxiousness they call security.
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