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<font face="monospace"> Have you evaluated your graphic hardware?
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How much RAM do you have (often more RAM makes <br>
everything at least a little faster)? Also, <br>
what speed busses does your motherboard have? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/2015 06:07 PM, Steve S. wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAP9UzSBeiHW=AWO0nTS4CCJ=0nP-t2e2UJPuJJfnUUUgzFoy_w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">It's "alas" because I've found for some years now that
mostly I just want my computer to WORK, appliance-like. My
fsck'ing can-opener never throws bad blocks... :P
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<div>Though I _used_to_ enjoy getting a new computer, setting it
up, etc, I mostly experience it these days as a massive
inconvenience.</div>
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<div>Anyhow... rant over (at least for now). My question (likely
the first of several) is if there's a general consensus as to th<span
style="font-size:15px">e price/performance "sweet spot" for
CPU's? Probably my most compute-intensive chore is running
Photoshop on 24MP raw images (though I love me some complex 4X
games in the Civ/AoE/MoO model, and late-stage/large-map
sessions DO take a while to calculate.). I was rather
startled by how cheap i7 systems have become! But then again,
I see that other considerations (Haswll, Broadwell, Skylake,
yadda yadda yadda) seem to be where much of the
differentiation is happening... so there's quite a HUGE
range of price and performance under the "i7" umbrella.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:15px">And then there's AMD...</span></div>
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<div>I'm sure I could figure it out for myself, in time, but...
Well, per the Rant above, the geeky joy's just not there... I'm
hoping that my (admittedly-incomplete) assimilation into the
nblug collective might give me some quicker insights...</div>
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<div>Any advice/etc gratefully received!</div>
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<div>- Steve</div>
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"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the
fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -CS
Lewis<br>
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