What do you consider fast?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

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

 

[BatmanNate]

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.

 

[Rob9874]

2.0 and higher. (Only because I have a P4 2.0Ghz.)

 

[Eli]

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.

 

[GroundZero]

400 for work is ok.
got a p2 266, a p3 550 and a p3 750, but my gamer runs a gig.

 

[notfred]

100mph or better trap speed is pretty fast.

Oh... computer.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: Tyler
100mph or better trap speed is pretty fast.

Oh... computer.

It could be done with one of those aircraft carrier catapults I bet.

 

[human2k]

3.0GHZ and up is fast.

 

[DigDug]

1ghz is plenty for everything I do, and I'm willing to bet the same with 98% of the population too.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: human2k
3.0GHZ and up is fast.

Yup.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

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!

 

[Scouzer]

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>

 

[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.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

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.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

whatever keeps up with my needs, i really couldn't care less if my discman had a p4 in it.

 

[psy44]

I know I couldn't stand my last 200 mhz p2, So I would have to say at least 1 ghz

 

[Spamela]

until 64 bit cpus/motherboards are cheap, my Athlon 1800 at home is plenty fast enough.

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Tyler
100mph or better trap speed is pretty fast.

Oh... computer.

How's 108.6 mph?

 

[brunswickite]

anything over 1ghz is fast and 256mb ram is very functional

me at 2.53ghz

 

[woodie1]

My old 350mhz does most things well but my XP 2100+ does have a slight(?) edge.

 

[CraigRT]

i have an Athlon 900 at work.. plenty fast for average use
gaming, video card is most important....

 

[glugglug]

To put it simply:

One can never have too much CPU.

 

[TheVrolok]

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+

 

[GermyBoy]

If you can't last at least a minute, you're too fast. LOL

 

[Zebo]

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.