Just a little bit of fun

GunJack

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Ran my 6 year old computer
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000
CPU clock 2171.8 MHz

104.611 seconds

I don't feel so bad now

Considering the semperon was the athlon's slower little brother and my clock speed is only 1.8 GHz, that's alright

GunJack

My middle-spec machine, CPU benchmark around 600...

Asus X58L, 2GHz Celeron, 2GB RAM, W7 Pro....

95 secs !!!!

So my old faithful desktop ain't too bad after all

aliEnRIK

GunJack wrote: »

I don't feel so bad now

Considering the semperon was the athlon's slower little brother and my clock speed is only 1.8 GHz, that's alright

Goes to show how much computers have improved though doesnt it?

My current computer cost less than my 6 year old computer and its 8 times faster!
Personally im intrigued as to where computers will go now. They seem to have hit a bit of a brick wall with regards to out and out speed per cpu (Around 3- 4 GHz)

danthemoneysavingman

I got 58.78 secs (1660 MHz Yonah C0*1 [Intel T2300]) for what its worth, my old Mac Mini running W7

and 43.56 on (2100 MHz Penryn M0*1 [Intel T8100])

warwick_hunt_2

11.806 sec

i5 2500k - 3.3Ghz stock speed
8Gb DDR3
GTX 560 Ti
W7 Home Prem

Dave_C_2

161 seconds on ageing AMD Duron 1.2GHz XP machine

Nothing flash but plenty good enough for surfing/ email etc.

Dave

GunJack

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Goes to show how much computers have improved though doesnt it?

My current computer cost less than my 6 year old computer and its 8 times faster!
Personally im intrigued as to where computers will go now. They seem to have hit a bit of a brick wall with regards to out and out speed per cpu (Around 3- 4 GHz)

yeah, i agree....physically won't be able to go much quicker..and even if they could, what practical use will that be ???

Stompa

Hmmm, 88 seconds, but then the PC is 7.5 years old.

GunJack

Dave_C wrote: »

Nothing flash but plenty good enough for surfing/ email etc.Dave

exactly my point for the vast majority of users.....same argument for broadband speeds over a certain level......

aliEnRIK

GunJack wrote: »

yeah, i agree....physically won't be able to go much quicker..and even if they could, what practical use will that be ???

I know where your coming from jack. But media for example is getting bigger in file size, which requires faster and faster processors to get the time down when encoding.
Games are an obvious one
Multitasking (Of which I do loads)
Bigger and flashier web pages
More and more nasties coming onto the scene requiring more sophisticated anti virus programs (I know this is a bit of a 'none' issue really, but I do wonder if my workplace keeps updating their computers because they run the horribly slow Mcrapee. Its shocking how slow they are considering they have 4Gb RAM and dual core 3GHz processors)
Animation and photography programs etc etc

So yes, the average 'web browsing' user could use my 6 year old computer no problem. But there are plenty of users that will use the extra procesing power