Single thread performance more important?

[whm1974]

Yeah I really don't know why they gave me this PC.

To be clear, I am a library facilities manager and at least according to my position description, there's absolutely nothing in my job that would require more power than an i3. All I really need to do the core functions of my job is Outlook and a couple of pieces of legacy ILS software that are Windows 95 era and I'm sure they don't benefit from extra threads lololol.

But over time due to mission creep and my own interest I've taken on quite a bit of work handling digitization and digital archive management, so that involves a lot of encoding video sources into standardized types. I've also been assigned to help out with some basic database management tasks using Access, which seems to be a RAM hog.

I guess I should probably stop complaining on the internet and instead just ask....

Let me guess, you will need to write a multi-page report to some bean counter or worse a committee to justify why you need to max out your current system with more memory and a large speedy SSD? And God forbid you asking for a new rig with way better specs?

 

[Christopher Bohling]

Let me guess, you will need to write a multi-page report to some bean counter or worse a committee to justify why you need to max out your current system with more memory and a large speedy SSD? And God forbid you asking for a new rig with way better specs?

Probably not actually, in the past I've been able to just ask IT for equipment and they usually give it to me no questions asked (i.e. more monitors, new printer, etc.)

 

[whm1974]

Probably not actually, in the past I've been able to just ask IT for equipment and they usually give it to me no questions asked (i.e. more monitors, new printer, etc.)

Well in your case it doesn't hurt to ask, so I would ask for as much as you can use.