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"Geoff" wrote in message ... XP home is limited to 1 cpu pro does 2 cpu's I haven't personally witnessed it, but understand Home will allow hyperthreading on HT-equipped CPU's, so that might be a good alternative. |
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William W. Plummer wrote:
"Geoff" wrote in message ... Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote: I just recommended to a friend looking to upgrade that he look at Dual CPU machines. You need to look at what he is going to do with the machine. Most home machines are used for the web, email, Word, Excel, etc. These are all single thread programs (interrupts are a negligible load). So, more than one CPU won't make anything faster. Further, your hard disk is almost always the bottleneck as far as speed goes -- look at what percent of the time your disk light is on. Multiple CPUs will make this worse because one CPU will have to sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... |
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"Ric" wrote in message ... William W. Plummer wrote: "Geoff" wrote in message ... Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote: I just recommended to a friend looking to upgrade that he look at Dual CPU machines. You need to look at what he is going to do with the machine. Most home machines are used for the web, email, Word, Excel, etc. These are all single thread programs (interrupts are a negligible load). So, more than one CPU won't make anything faster. Further, your hard disk is almost always the bottleneck as far as speed goes -- look at what percent of the time your disk light is on. Multiple CPUs will make this worse because one CPU will have to sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... What does IBM say about their product? How about Western Digital, which also has a 15,000 RPM EIDE disk. |
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If anybody actually makes a 15k rpm IDE drive, I would be interested it
their model numbers. "William W. Plummer" wrote in message news:Ekxyb.268668$275.961491@attbi_s53... "Ric" wrote in message ... William W. Plummer wrote: "Geoff" wrote in message ... Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote: I just recommended to a friend looking to upgrade that he look at Dual CPU machines. You need to look at what he is going to do with the machine. Most home machines are used for the web, email, Word, Excel, etc. These are all single thread programs (interrupts are a negligible load). So, more than one CPU won't make anything faster. Further, your hard disk is almost always the bottleneck as far as speed goes -- look at what percent of the time your disk light is on. Multiple CPUs will make this worse because one CPU will have to sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... What does IBM say about their product? How about Western Digital, which also has a 15,000 RPM EIDE disk. |
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Internet Explorer search for "15,000 RPM" found many. Here's a page that
compares them... http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir....arch=15000+rpm "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message ... If anybody actually makes a 15k rpm IDE drive, I would be interested it their model numbers. "William W. Plummer" wrote in message news:Ekxyb.268668$275.961491@attbi_s53... "Ric" wrote in message ... William W. Plummer wrote: "Geoff" wrote in message ... Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote: I just recommended to a friend looking to upgrade that he look at Dual CPU machines. You need to look at what he is going to do with the machine. Most home machines are used for the web, email, Word, Excel, etc. These are all single thread programs (interrupts are a negligible load). So, more than one CPU won't make anything faster. Further, your hard disk is almost always the bottleneck as far as speed goes -- look at what percent of the time your disk light is on. Multiple CPUs will make this worse because one CPU will have to sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... What does IBM say about their product? How about Western Digital, which also has a 15,000 RPM EIDE disk. |
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I thought XP home only supported one CPU, XP pro is the multi CPU support.
But then I am often wrong. the_gnome |
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Thanks for the search, but they are all SCSI drives.
There were references to a 15k rpm IDE drive in the thread. and that's what I would like to see a model number for. 15k rpm SCSI drives have been around for years now. AFAIK the highest rpm for current IDE drives is 10k. If there really is a 15k rpm IDE drive, I'd like to know who makes it and what the model number is, so I can buy one. "William W. Plummer" wrote in message news:34Hyb.268188$mZ5.1952992@attbi_s54... Internet Explorer search for "15,000 RPM" found many. Here's a page that compares them... http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir....arch=15000+rpm "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message ... If anybody actually makes a 15k rpm IDE drive, I would be interested it their model numbers. sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... What does IBM say about their product? How about Western Digital, which also has a 15,000 RPM EIDE disk. |
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"Ric" wrote: William W. Plummer wrote: "Geoff" wrote in message ... Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote: I just recommended to a friend looking to upgrade that he look at Dual CPU machines. You need to look at what he is going to do with the machine. Most home machines are used for the web, email, Word, Excel, etc. These are all single thread programs (interrupts are a negligible load). So, more than one CPU won't make anything faster. Further, your hard disk is almost always the bottleneck as far as speed goes -- look at what percent of the time your disk light is on. Multiple CPUs will make this worse because one CPU will have to sit there tapping its fingers while the other one is accessing the disk. A faster disk (15,000 RPM from IBM) will minimize the waiting. The right RAID configuration (striping?) should help. SCSI interface doesn't make the disk turn faster so it won't help. well, i think you'll struggle to attach a 15000rpm drive without using SCSI personally... As kind of a side note...While you're right about 15,000 western digital has a 10,000 SATA drive, and I'm sure 15,000 isn't too far away. |
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You are entirely correct. XP Home is a SINGLE CPU only, XP Pro has dual CPU
capability. Cari www.coribright.com "the gnome" the wrote in message ... I thought XP home only supported one CPU, XP pro is the multi CPU support. But then I am often wrong. the_gnome |
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