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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 22:11

At least these machines will be responsilby recycled. Everyone's latched onto recycling, forgetting the saying goes: reduce, reuse, recycle - in decreasing order of effectiveness. Reducing consumption is very threatening to the current organisation of the world. Yeah. And the thing is that the …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:19

We are somewhere near 99% bloat And it’s unlikely to get better as we continue down the rabbit hole of new code on top of antique psuido code that becomes redundant. Yes, this is the key. Not that modern CPUs are overpowered (they are, indeed), but that modern bloat is "over"bloated! It's gotten so …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:12

Try to edit the video on a slow computer and the question will disappear by itself, and today all users are uploading the video on YouTube, this is the average user. Average teen maybe. Not really. Many people from all age groups are using YouTube a their primary platform. I think you would be …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:11

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-11-12, 18:03: I predict MS Windows 12 will bring back 3d window buttons..... And a new startup tune. We have came full circle from 2001. Windows 11 looks like Windows XP had a bastard child with Windows 10.

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:09

8GB is simply not enough these days. You can improve that by storing pagefile on NVME SSD, Intel Optane or some LSI WarpDrive. Latter even has official XP drivers. Well. I suppose that I could do that. But here is the thing....number one is that it is my work PC and I don't get to pick and choose …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 22:02

I personally am quite happy navigating the web on a 3GHz Q6600 with 8GB of RAM and various gaming gpu but I know my Dad would somehow manage to make a system like that grind to a halt over 6 months. 8GB is simply not enough these days. My work machine pretty much eats 12GB constantly, with Outlook/ …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 18:56

Well, if we are talking strictly about consumer CPUs, then is the other way around: In order to improve something you must have a need, a demand for improvement... CPUs nowadays are doing far more than the average user needs and the only thing its making people consume newer technology is …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 17:19

And then we have capitalism... That's actually the reason we had CPU stagnation in mainstream market from first Core i7 release and up to first Ryzen release. Yes we had a monopoly. Intel had zero need to try and innovate, they could keep puking out the same chip year after year with a 100mhz …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 17:50

We are somewhere near 99% bloat And it’s unlikely to get better as we continue down the rabbit hole of new code on top of antique psuido code that becomes redundant. Speed is relative. I work with big chunky bloated frameworks and when optimized correctly they feel as responsive or more responsive …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 17:38

Even for modern gaming, GPUs are usually a much bigger bottleneck than CPUs. Most of the most demanding games will play just fine on a several generation old i7 with a current high end GPU. That's because we had very anemic console generation and current generation with decent CPUs are still not …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 17:19

Yes totally. I only have the 3900x because it was a gift. I had a Ryzen 7 1700 that i built pretty close to launch, last year I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a 3700x which I didn't really need but kind of wanted. Then I was generously gifted the 3900x so I gave my 1700 to my nephew and sold …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 15:49

Even for modern gaming, GPUs are usually a much bigger bottleneck than CPUs. Most of the most demanding games will play just fine on a several generation old i7 with a current high end GPU. Whereas the opposite is not true -- demanding games will play bad on the newest, fastest CPU with a several …

Re: AMD K6-2, K6-2+ and K6-iii+ RAM limitations on ALI Aladdin V (M1542) SS7 boards?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 15:45

Pretty much as others have mentioned. I find that with my K6-3+ there is very little to no penalty with using more than 128MB of ram. Likely less than 10% and closer to 5% in nearly all apps tested. Sometimes not any at all. With that said...there is very little point to using more than 128MB ram …

Re: What phone do you use currently?

Posted on 2021-11-08, 21:48

Yah, sucks they're quitting, LGs have been good to me, sure they had a couple of turkeys in the past, (which I dodged) but so did everyone. I am in two minds about whether it would really make a difference to pick up one of those 5Gs or not vs another choice that's staying in the biz, since I buy " …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-08, 19:15

Imho modern computers became faster and faster but what didn't change that much is what people use them for. It doesn't matter if it's a smartphone, a tablet, a notebook or a full desktop, they all are conceptually personal computers with obviously different possibilities from the user point of …

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