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To: OrionX who wrote (31940)	1/18/2002 9:19:35 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) of 213182

OrionX, "It's no big feat to go from 867 to 1G" A straight calculation puts that at a 15% increase which may not seem that great but the real world increase could be a little higher when running multiple apps. This saves 8 minutes per hour of compute time for intensive jobs, an hour per 8-hour workday. Hardly insignificant for people who really use every last cycle and want more. If a machine earns only $50/hr when working then this could pay off a new machine in a few weeks, maybe only a week if the old machine is sold off to offset the cost. If a bored user browses the Internet or runs some other apps which are relatively fixed-cycle (editing another file for instance) than the app taking up every free cycle could see a boost in cycles allocated to it greater than 15%. A processor intensive app normally allocated 80% of a 867MHz machine would than see a 20% increase in allocated cycles with the 1GHz processor. At the very least an 8-hour day becomes a 7-hour one processor-wise. Not necessarily compelling but any processor bump can only help the buyer. Cheers, Norm

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