With gaming it depends on the resolution you play at. With a 30" monitor
you're going to need some decent horsepower and even with my 24" there
are times I wish for something better than my 4850 (5850 coming up as
soon as price takes the 1st drop). I'm confused, you speak of an Intel
quad core processor you bought 2 years ago being dirt cheap? Did you get
it used because new and cheap don't equate to Intel processors. LOL
Brian Weeden wrote:
Hard drives have been the major system bottleneck for most computer users
for years now. I'm surprised that it's taken this long for that fact to
settle in AND for companies to realize that's the future growth area.
Video cards? Eh...unless you are a freak you can get by. I play most new
games and get by just fine spending $200 every couple of years.
Processor? The quad core intel I bought 2 years ago was dirt cheap and I
have yet to saturate all 4 processors.
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Technical Advisor
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Stan Zaske <swza...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yep, Vista and Win7 are both very hardrive intensive compared to XP. Better
pony up the dough and get a solid state drive with the "barefoot"
controller. LOL
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
I've noticed this 'problem' on both Vista and Win7. It seems like the
system puts it's file manager to sleep, so that if you try to do a disk
action, you get a substantial delay. For instance, I'll be playing a game,
then I jump to email, when I try to drag and drop, there is a delay, I get
the circle, then finally it moves the message. Of course, the next message
goes quickly. The same with getting disk directories. I'll click on a
drive, get the 1st half of folders, then the circle and then the moving bar,
then it finally gives me all the folders. Of course, after that point,
everything works quickly. My power settings are for always on, so it's not
a power down. Anyone else seen this?
Thanks....Steve
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