What is the speed of your computer’s CPU?

Intel core duo 1.8ghz on one laptop.
Intel Pentium M 1ghz (ULV) on my other laptop.

 

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2400 MHz

 

See signature which excludes the Wifes PC. She is running an Opteron 940. The exact specs. fail me right now.

Edit:Opteron 940 = 1.4GHz. Soon to be upgraded to at least a 2.0GHz 940.

 

AMD Sempron 2300+

 

I go at subpar speed.

1.4 Ghz, 380 Mhz, 333 Mhz, and 66 Mhz.

 

Never saw your question. I'd have to upgrade everything to do any substantial processor upgrade. My box is a Pavilion 4463 that came with 98. I've upgraded a few things, a CDRW, 160mb RAM, new ethernet and USB cards, a 2nd internal drive and an 80GB external. I'm pretty sure that my motherboard won't handle more than a 500mhz processor.

I haven't found a good reason to upgrade further. I'm not a gamer. I don't do anything with video or high power graphics. Take those 2 out and most everything else doesn't require that much processor speed. Besides, I run several apps that claim to need a minimum processor of 550mhz. They run fine with my 366mhz. This old box runs much faster than you'd expect for one with its specs.

PCs are backwards in this regard when compared to most everything else. For most practical purposes, low power units work fine. But to be a good playtoy, they need high speed processors, lots of RAM, and high power graphics. Lousy toys can be good tools, but not vice versa. What's wrong with this picture?

Sure, I'd like to have something newer. I can't honestly say I need it, and right now, I have too many other things that take priority and cost much more. I'll eventually upgrade, probably when this old hardware dies.
Rick

 

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I'd imagine office suites are one such instance. Open Office.org does start slow on mine, but that's about it for the apps I use. Some of the more cluttered web pages can get slow but I seldom notice it as Proxomitron blocks most of that junk. Everything else seems comparable to more modern units I service, at least for what I do. What besides gaming and video apps did you see a big difference with?
Rick

 

My workhorse is an AMD Duron 1250GHZ and another box at an anemic 399 MHZ that believe it or not does remarkably well with a meager 198 Mb memory with XP Pro, don't know how i pulled that off because it's better off with a 98SE system IMO, but hey it performs a bit lag but does well enough to encourage me to add a high end CPU when i can get a chance at it this spring.

 

Two units:

DuoCore 1.66mhz 533, 768mb DDR2 PC4200 - using XP Pro SP2 on Dell Latitude

PIII 866mhz 133, 768mb Sdram - using Win2K SP4/Rollup on desktop

 

I used to have an old pentium II 266mhz computer with 64mb of ram running windows xp lol. Talk about lag and hdd thrashing.

 

At home the whole family we have 3 computers -> two are below 1.5 Ghz , one is 1.7 Ghz

At the office all are below 1.5 Ghz (unfortunately) , but I am happy

 

AMD Athlon 939 X2 3800+ (Toledo Core)

Will also assemble soon another with my older Athlon 939 3200+ Venice core.

 

I found it far more productive to have 2 older machines that the sum of both ram/cpu does'nt add up to the single machine they replaced.

 

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A year ago, upgraded from an Intel Pentium IV 1.7 Ghz CPU to a Celeron D 2.93 Ghz @ 3.65 Ghz

Really need some power for photo editing... though my mobo would still take anything up to a Pentium IV 3.2Ghz HT Prescott, my purse would not

 

P4 2.8

 

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866mhz here

 

p4 2.4ghz

bazza

 

AMD Duron 1250Mhz (overclocked) RAM=512 but will accept 1 GB. Dual Drives Maxtor 30Gb (Win XP Pro) + Quantum Fireball 30Gb (Windows 98SE)
PCchips MB Model 810L, On-Board Memory/Video/Audio plus i plug in various PCI slots with Graphics Nvidia Card etc. from time to time.

Just got a 200 GB (Seagate) but waiting to customize new motherboard w/ new CPU when have time (and money) to do so; maybe this Spring/Summer

 

Pentium 2.9, running Win XP Pro, 1GB

 

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked @ 2934 GHz DDR2 PC6400
2 GiG of Ram 800mhz.

The Mul

 

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Pentium 4 3.4Ghz HT

 

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3200 mhz

 

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Pentium 4/2.93Ghz