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What do you consider fast?

What do you consider fast for a computer? This is for what you use the computer for.

For general use and no gaming, I prefer anything quiet and somewhere above 1.5ghz
For gaming, depends on the game
 
400 MHz plus is fast for working in general, 700 plus for media in general, 1.2 plus for games I would say depending on the chip of course.
 
LOL!

1.5GHz minimum, huh?

I've had the same K6-3/400 @ 450 for 3 years now.. I do need to upgrade, but it works fine. I'm not much of a gamer.
 
2-300mhz - general stuff
5-700mhz - mozilla is decently useable, huge files and databases and stuff become bearable, vim syntax highlighting on big files is not sluggish over ssh, medium gimp work is doable, etc.
1ghz+ - fast enough for everything I do.
2ghz+ - really freaking fast!
3ghz+ - insane!
 
Only 2x P4 2.4ghz Xeon's shall suffice! Which of course is equivalent to 4.8ghz as the dual processors combine in powah! Anything slower feels like molasses!

</sarcasm>
 
Well, I have a 3.335GHz with HT, and while it's fast, it's still not as fast as the Dual Alpha 600Mhz running WinNT3.51 I used to have.

That sucker had near Spider-Sense, if your finger was just off from clicking the button, the app was open and ready to run.
 
Originally posted by: MysticLlama
Well, I have a 3.335GHz with HT, and while it's fast, it's still not as fast as the Dual Alpha 600Mhz running WinNT3.51 I used to have.

That sucker had near Spider-Sense, if your finger was just off from clicking the button, the app was open and ready to run.

Well... alphas are awesome, and NT 3.x was itty bitty compared to today's software.
 
Originally posted by: glugglug
To put it simply:

One can never have too much CPU.

Well said.

IMHO tho, when I think "fast" I think of a system that'll run the latest, most graphically decked out, etc., game on the market.. Thus as far as CPU would go I'd say upwards of 2.7+ 🙂
 
1000 mhz processor 133 mhz bus or better, and a Geforce 3 or ATI 8500.

Basically I won't spend over $100 for any one componet so I can stay right behind the leading edge at a very econmonical price. Chasing the top end is for suckers.
 
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