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Is your PC "fast enough"?

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I'm happy with mine...the only thing in my next-few-months list is an SSD, and maybe by summer/fall-ish I'll upgrade my 4890. For now, I'm happy.
 
I don't play games or anything. Just browse the internet, listen to music, watch movies, etc...

My Pentium 4, which was top-of-the-line when I got it, hasn't changed at all in the 9 years since. It runs Windows 7 acceptably, though my 9600 all-in-wonder is clearly a little taxed outputting duel 1080p for my two monitors. Also I can't watch hi-def content 🙁.

I am planning on replacing it with a fusion nettop in a few months for environmental reasons (my ancient rig idles around 110 watts).
 
I'm happy with my E8400, 6gig ram on windows 7 runs fast. Only upgrade I'm eying is an SSD and/or a new video card once Diablo3 comes out. So I'm safe for awhile 🙂
 
E8400 Wolfdale.
4GB RAM.
Totally forgot the video card. Fast enough for HD Vids, don't game at all on the PC anymore.

I plan on doubling the RAM and tossing in a nice SSD.
Who knows, maybe I'll try overclocking it for once.
That will fix it for another couple of years. Honestly, I don't see a need for that much more speed.

If/when I do video stuff, that's when I'll think about it.
 
my laptop is still ok, the GPU is lacking now 🙁

T9300 with the 3650.

I just installed a 60gb SSD and this thing is like a new computer now!
 
Until I saw some Sandy Bridge benches on encodes, yes. Now...not quite so fast enough. I do a lot video encoding, and while I can leave the system encoding overnight/through the next day, I'd still like to be able to do larger batches, or run small encodes quickly. But in the end, it at least suffices so I don't fall behind on anything.

Gaming wise, however, my secondary (285GTX/QX6700@3.14GHz/4GB DDR2) and primary(460GTX/Athlon II X4 640@3.3GHz+/4GB DDR3) systems are enough. As someone said, with so many high-profile games being ports or multi-platform without PC optimization, there's only a handful of titles can really start to push it. It also probably helps that I'm one of the few people who DOESN'T like antialiasing on anything but fonts 😛
 
E6600, 2GB, 8800 GTS 320 (all 3.5 years old).

It keeps up with office software, music, video, web surfing, and I don't game anymore, so I don't need a faster card. Wish I could run 1080p Youtube vids though - they're a bit choppy. Only 720p is completely smooth.
 
Looking at a vid. card upgrade and an SSD, but whole computer? Not now, not yet. Maybe Ivy Bridge.

i7 920 @ 4GHz @ 1.25V on water, 6GB RAM. Runs quiet, cool, and is still quite quick.
 
E8500 here @3.6. Seeing as I could probably sell it for almost as much as the new 15 2500K's are selling for @ MC I'm tempted to upgrade.
 
Athlon X2 2.1GHz + 2GB ram + HD3850 here, No reason to upgrade.

No real problems with games like Fallout NV/Crysis/DiRT2. I jack up the settings all the way and put them down a little and they run fine.

Today I wouldn't go with anything less than that - dual core, 2GB ram, and a high end video card from a few generations back.
 
PottedMeat said:
Athlon X2 2.1GHz + 2GB ram + HD3850 here, No reason to upgrade.

No real problems with games like Fallout NV/Crysis/DiRT2. I jack up the settings all the way and put them down a little and they run fine.

Today I wouldn't go with anything less than that - dual core, 2GB ram, and a high end video card from a few generations back.
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Hell I use up 2GB of ram with all my open IE Windows
 
The SSD makes all the difference.
I am running a three year old Core2 Duo at 2.66 and since my SSD buy I see no reason to upgrade in the foreseeable future.
 
Still have the rig in my sig, but it's at stock clock now. And I did add an Intel 80GB SSD and 1TB HDD. No plans to change anytime soon.
 
I moved to macbook's a while back, I took a big hit in 'power' by giving up my desktop, yet I never noticed any usability differences.

I recently got rid of all my other computers. I now have a single macbook pro I use for everything. I used to upgrade or build a new computer every year. I don't think I'll ever buy a computer again (I'll just wait for work upgrades).
 
Shawn said:
Computers have become fast enough that we no longer are utilizing their full potential.
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It's ironic, but I'm finding that my work computer lags out a lot more often than my gaming computer does. At home, people deal with 1mb pdf files. At work, try 100mb pdf files. Try sending it to the printer and it sits there at 100% on one of the cores for a while. Certain commands in AutoCAD can lag the system out for a few minutes. There always seems to be at least one program running at low priority just so it doesn't lag the system.
 
Yea I actually downgraded my system. I went from a Q6600 to a E2220 (clocked at 3Ghz). Now that I have a HTPC and Xbox I don;t encode anything anymore.
I did upgrade to a GTS450 mostly for the extra ram and ability to use it for Civ5 and maybe some other stuff.

But waiting for BD and even then probable wait till later this year to build.

I agree that the SSD is probable the best thing for performance feel. I am also waiting for next gen in hopes it fixs all the issues now, let alone price.
 
i7 and an SSD, yes, it is fast enough for everything except SCII maxed. With the addition of two new graphics cards, it should be done for a long time.
 
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