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So that's me spending the rest of the morning on Overclockers looking at
parts...

One final question:::::::::::::::::::::::

I use (at the same time)
database, a bit outlook, office word/excel, firefox running about 10 tabs,
loads of utilities in the background, acrobat, illustrator etc.

i.e. not a designer working on huge images or doing any sort of rendering,
just a heavy business user.

Not a gamer, but it would be quite cool to be able to at some point if I
ever found a few minutes.

Would a ***hot single processor do the job with 2GB+ ram etc. and is this
yearning for a quadcore thing just pure boys toys overkill ?



















On 01/02/2008, Pete Fairhurst <pete.fairhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you're quick, this is a steal (from Dell):
>
> http://rurl.org/h7c
>
> Go for the 20" monitor upgrade though, as this unit is noticably
> better than the default 19" silver jobby.
>
> And there's no point going for the E6550 'Core' processor upgrade as
> none* of the other components will support the 1333MHz bus speed of
> the chip.
>
> * <rant>I don't know why places like Dell do this in the first place;
> it's fucking stupid to provide a very particular upgrade for one
> component, but not allow you to match that upgrade throughout the
> system to actually get any performance benefit from the thing.
>
> Idiots -- it's the very reason why I've always built my own machines
> and consummately gloated as my rigs wee all over factory-built
> machines of - on paper - what should be a higher spec.</rant>
>
> - Pete
>
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Thanks,

Karl


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