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[Dan81]

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Still may find that XP is better with that rig. (pretty much anything before Core 2) (especially a single core)

Vista and later also has a tendency to lag unless you have an SSD or HDDs in RAID 0.

4 GB of RAM recommended for 32-bit 7. (probably the max for a board of that era)


Windows Vista and later has DirectSound removed and thus breaks compatibility with sound cards from that era.

Windows 7 requires you to get a brand new sound card.

Actually,7 seems to fly on this machine. Also,other than the GPU most of what I need (network and audio)are integrated.

And fyi,my daily machine is a single core Athlon 64 3200+ 2.20GHz with 1.50GB of RAM,1TB SATA HDD and Windows 7 SP1.

[eccerr0r]

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Not sure why my P4 is pretty awful in Linux playing flash movies...
Unfortunately I don't own any copies of Windows I could compare against Linux.

[Compgeke]

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I'd guess because Flash is slow on everything and the newest Pentium 4 release is already 10 years old.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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And with 64-bit Vista and later, 5 GB+ of RAM would be recommended.

I wouldn't guarantee 7 x64 doing well on anything pre-775.

[eccerr0r]

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Yes my 775 P4 (P4-650) is slightly faster than my 478 P4 (3.0E)...
Both are crushed by my C2D, etc.

I think the P4 might have a run for its money against my Atoms... The Atoms I have are also miserably slow, but probably still get beat out by the P4s.

I just updated the Linux install on my 486DX4-133 via a VM. No sense in letting it build (it's running a full copy of Gentoo!)

[diif]

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And with 64-bit Vista and later, 5 GB+ of RAM would be recommended.

I wouldn't guarantee 7 x64 doing well on anything pre-775.

Where do you get this crazy figure of 5GB from ?

[Uranium-235]

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Atoms have higher efficienty than P4's by far, but only the higher p4's can even come close to some of the lowest atoms, past that atoms win. And atoms are more MMX/SSE optimized and capability, so newer OS's run better on them

[Dan81]

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And with 64-bit Vista and later, 5 GB+ of RAM would be recommended.

I wouldn't guarantee 7 x64 doing well on anything pre-775.

I don't know where you get that info,but here's what Microsoft says:

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:



1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

[eccerr0r]

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"Efficiency" means nothing when the processor isn't fast enough to run the application you want at the speed you need.

Computer efficiency makes no sense when it's talked about without the type of efficiency. Absolute power efficiency is pointless, a minimum processing speed bar is needed per power envelope since parallelism is not always useful or practical.

[newtothis]

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Can add a couple more systems now -

AMD 1100t Hexcore CPU
Asus Crosshair Formula V Motherboard
16GB Kingston Beast DDR3 RAM
Corsair HX750 PSU

Intel Core i7 4790k CPU
Asus P8Z77-V Motherboard
8GB Kingston Beast RAM
Corsair HX750 PSU

I haven't listed my GPU as I swap it daily (Reball repairs) :

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Where do you get this crazy figure of 5GB from ?

Because 4 GB on a default x64 can be used up easily if running RAM-heavy programs.
6 GB would be better on x64 Vista and later.



My cons of Vista and later:

1: DirectSound eliminated.

2: Resists freeing up RAM when another program needs more RAM.

3: Random Windows Update errors. (7's Windows Update has a tendency to randomly give error code 80080005)

[eccerr0r]

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Speaking of RAM, anyone had experience with DDR2 "high density" vs "other" RAM?

I thought that this was fixed after the SDRAM PC66/PC100/PC133 days, but apparently this is still an issue. I am thinking about upgrading my 6GB Core2 Quad's RAM, and currently I have two 2G's and two 1G's. I'll need to drop the 1G's but wonder what my options are to upgrade its RAM? Is my best bet getting two more 2G's (and bump to 8GB) or could I get a pair of 4G's (but risk incompatibility but bump to 12GB - which will probably be more than I will ever need)?

This machine is running virtual machines and also is a disk storage server. VM eats RAM as well as disk cache...

[Compgeke]

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I'd just go with 2 gig modules. 4 gig DDR2 modules aren't worth the investment.

If you do need more than 8 gigs I'd find a Core 2 board with DDR3 instead. DDR3 ram tends to be cheaper for the same amount and once you're getting into 4 gig modules there's a huge difference.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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I'd just go with 2 gig modules. 4 gig DDR2 modules aren't worth the investment.

If you do need more than 8 gigs I'd find a Core 2 board with DDR3 instead. DDR3 ram tends to be cheaper for the same amount and once you're getting into 4 gig modules there's a huge difference.

But it's likely to be incompatible with 1.35 V DDR 3!

[eccerr0r]

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Bah, now I'd need another board to get DDR3. At least it would then be interchangeable with my i7's RAM... or I could get two 8's for my i7 and dump its two 4's into the c2q... mmm...

... stop tempting me!

[Dan81]

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Yet again,upgraded my main PC:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
MSI K9N SLi - nVidia nForce 570 SLi
2GB DDR2 RAM (1x1GB and 2x512MB)
ASUS GeForce 210 1GB
1TB Samsung HD103SI SATA HDD
Winfast TV2000XP Expert TV Tuner
Delux ATX-400W P4 PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

[TCCTech]

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TCCTech (Jason)

[Pentium4]

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^ It tells you when you join the forum to post here...
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...612#post565612

[tom66]

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New setup now I've moved into a bigger room... Going to try and find matching monitors to replace my current 24" ones. Maybe 1200/1440p or 4K monitors. Both of these monitors (well, one is a TV) were trashpicked, but I don't mind spending a few £s on new ones if they are good quality.

Monitors are on a DM352 desk mount, stands removed, maximises desk space and puts them at a proper eye level. Yes I do know they are at different levels, but I can't change that without matching the monitors.

[Dan81]

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YADCS - Yet Another Dual Core Setup

Here are dem specs:

CPU - Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.8GHz
MB - Biostar P4M900-M7 SE
RAM - 1x1GB DDR2-667
HDD - 80GB WDC WD800JD-60LSA5
ODD - HP TS-H492C (TSSTCorp is the OEM)
PSU - Low Power Intex IT-20F1BC "430W" (half a PCB inside and EI-28 transformer) - it doesn't get hot at all. I initially wanted to use a modded Deer (Premier LC-B400ATX,has PI coils and all the stuff needed) but after my Sun Pro died in a spectacular way (5vsb transistor exploded, and mosfet cracked) I am reluctant to use it as last Deer that died made a FIREBALL (ANS LC-B350ATX)
GPU - onboard VIA Chrome9 HC IGP