January 6, 2004

The Need for Speed

I’ve decided the 1GB memory upgrade on my PC was GOOD thing. After using it for several days, it is definitely faster. Programs load in about half to one third of the time they did before and they seem to run faster. The real test will come when I edit an audio file. THAT should be interesting.

After that little surgery, I’m tempted to see what replacing the Celeron processor with a P4 would do. That would up the processor L2 cache from 128K to 512K memory. More importantly, the bus speed on the processor would go from 400M Hz to 800M Hz AND my memory speed would go from 266 MHz to 400 MHz. Tempting, very tempting.

Posted by Ted at January 6, 2004 9:16 PM