What do you consider fast?

[Warthog912]

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.

lol.......nice

 

[tinyabs]

If the CPU load does not reach 100%, it should be plentiful.

Never heard of anyone mentioning compressing a 100mb file is fast.

 

[her209]

20GHz is minimum.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Faster than mine = fast

mine = standard (for me)

kinda slower = *booo*

much slower = EFF THIS!

 

[Zugzwang152]

i've a 1.4ghz system and a 700mhz system...both are plenty fast for what I do now, and the 1.4 was plenty fast in my CS days. (equipped with a gf2 and a radeon 7200 respectively). fast is whatever is the latest and greatest at the time.

 

[toant103]

1.5Ghz should be fast enough

 

[glugglug]

4.77MHz is enough for anybody. Just like 640K

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

I use a p3 550@733mhz for absolutely nothing, but it was plenty fast to play diablo 2 and starcraft.
Luckily i have 1800 athlon xp desktop and 2.4 ghz p4 lappy to satisfy my tech hunger.

 

[zCypher]

"Fast" changes constantly. 10 years ago "fast" wasn't what it is today. Needs change from day to day or year to year. However, there's probably a limit as to how much power one needs to do the basic tasks. I don't think your average Joe will suddenly start doing 3d editing just because he has a gazillion-hert computer. So, "decently fast" is only whatever runs your OS and applications decently fast. Right now, you don't even need 1GHz to run everything perfectly fast. You need enough system memory to hold up the OS and the applications, so depending on your OS, 64MB, 128MB or 256MB could be plenty of memory. Don't need much of a video card, so ANY video card would do, if you're not a gamer.

Average joe doesn't need half the power computers today offer. Storage space is another thing, though.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: glugglug
4.77MHz is enough for anybody. Just like 640K

Lol. I wonder if they ever taped him saying that about 640K being enough for anyone and how he doesn't see people using more than that.

 

[hans007]

anything with 256mb or more ram and discrete video seems ok for me.


i mean for web surfing at my parents, i have a celeron 333 with 128mb ram running win me and it seems ok.



my machine is an xp2100+ 512mb dual ddr333, using nforce2 igp, but i'm sure i could get by with less. just this config probably was the best value.



i think really 1 ghz with 512mb ram , ram being so cheap, should be plenty.