Something that few people seem to actually consider which can make a dramatic effect in system performance
is the friggen overhead that comes with modern OSs.

At the moment I happen to be on a Win7 system. I generally try to have as little "stuff" running in the background
as possible (on all my systems) - closing down my browser, having no other user applications running, and looking
in "task manager" I see over 12,000 handles, and over 550 threads active!

IMHO this is insane! and one of the major reasons I'm still partial to DOS!

Dave ::: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ::: "Daves Old Computers"->Personal

I am running Win-10 Pro and Win-11 Pro on an HP z220 with 16gb RAM and Sata SSD, Quad Coer i5-3470
Its performs okay but I would NOT go less than this config.

I am also running both OS on my HP z440 with 64gb RAM and Nvme SSD with 16-core Xeon
E5-2670v4
Performs pretty good. Best computer I have ever owned since my 486dx-33 back in 1993
And I have had allot of very fast computers.

These refurbished computers sell for cheap on eBay but are NOT Cheap quality
they are built with Good Quality components that are desihned to run 24/7/365 days a year.
HP Offically supports then in Win-10 with drivers but Microsoft is Supporting them in Win-11 too
All drivers install automatically through Windows update.
Install optional Windows drivers too.

These computers run are Very Reliable and Stable. They Never Crash or Hang.
Perform very well.
Best computers I have ever owned.

I have 100tb of Hard Drive Storage too

( 8 ) 12tb hard drives
( 4 ) Pcie Nvme SSDs

Hardware is Plug & Play Fully Supported by Microsoft in Win-10 and Win-11

pentiumspeed wrote on 2024-12-23, 20:57:

Later the processor generation is, better hardware supported using windows 10 with Haswell and later also 7th gen processor (i7- […]
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Later the processor generation is, better hardware supported using windows 10 with Haswell and later also 7th gen processor (i7-7700) which I have as well. Not Ivy bridge as the usb 3.0 is not supported, runs at usb 2.0 speed, confirmed on multiple computers. I can confirm this as I have Haswell computer at work with windows 10 and supports USB 3.0 speeds.

To help with your windows 10, I recommend using PT pro/1000 x1 NIC. This network card offloads TCP/ip from CPU. Biggest performance improvement impact. Most noticeable on less performing processors eg: AMD athlon processors, Core 2 Duo etc while networking and web browsing.

For PCI, try intel 1000/pro MT.

Cheers,

Hi, I received the intel pro 1000 and I have to say that your intuition was right. When I open the pages the cpu is always at 100% (perhaps to render the page and not to decipher the ethernet flow) but it opens the pages much faster, you can see that the jump in performance has been notable. Thanks and compliments again for the suggestion

pentiumspeed wrote on 2024-12-23, 20:57:

Later the processor generation is, better hardware supported using windows 10 with Haswell and later also 7th gen processor (i7-7700) which I have as well. Not Ivy bridge as the usb 3.0 is not supported, runs at usb 2.0 speed, confirmed on multiple computers. I can confirm this as I have Haswell computer at work with windows 10 and supports USB 3.0 speeds.
Cheers,

Ivy Bridge USB 3.0 (Thinkpad T430 I7-3632QM) works prefectly with Windows 10. With a SATA-USB3 adapter SSD throughput ia about 380MB/s. Definitely not USB 2 speed...