[gZAhTyWY]

This morning around 2am. You know, the 6 year old computer that I have reinstalled windows on more than 30 times. It stopped working this morning. All of a sudden I just saw red for like 60 seconds (in my brain, not the monitor... the monitor looked worse). I ripped my mouse off and threw it at the monitor and kicked my computers case. Then I went out and bought a pack of smokes... anyway, I'm buying a new one in about an hour or so. I've been planning on a new computer for the last two years LOL what took me so long?

rant
if computers are getting so much faster every year, why are mid-range computers still 1.6 to 2.0 ghz when my six year old computer was an older model then and was 1.8 ghz...? at the rate they claim they are getting faster, new computers should be at least 4 ghz...
/rant

(I'm feeling better now, promise! )

[makemoneyonli]

Yeah the other day my laptop was running like shit, freezing up and shit, so I slammed my fist right above where the HD sits, computer shut down, rebooted and worked fine the rest of the day.

What can I say, I'm the Fonz.

[Poohoppesmase]

They program the software, and build the hardware so it slows down over time. That way, after awhile, a new computer that has very little advancement over the old one, seems to be this great leap forward in processing speed, only because it's new. They do this to get you to buy a new computer

And don't forget your tinfoil hats BTW

[berdyanskdotsu]

They program the software, and build the hardware so it slows down over time. That way, after awhile, a new computer that has very little advancement over the old one, seems to be this great leap forward in processing speed, only because it's new. They do this to get you to buy a new computer

And don't forget your tinfoil hats BTW

yeah well they fuckin won. I bought a new one today, i'll post pics and specs later. It's an HP Pavilion Slimline with amd athalon x2 9550 something or other and 2.6 ghz. i talked to another guy at best buy that said that his comp's xp also crashed last night. microsoft: *cha-ching!*

[mbaueee]

actually, the shift went from how fast can we push the electronics to how many cores we can shove into the same amount of space.

the perceived speed is faster, but reality states that more cores are doing more work at the same speed or less.

[elton]

unless you overclock...speeds won't be getting to 4ghz for awhile. What they are going for is effeciency over speed because people are using their computers more which means they are using it for more stuff which all requires processing power so the more cores, more ram and more efficient hard drives that you see in the new computers allow for more things to happen on your computer at once.

[Loxaeed]

They program the software, and build the hardware so it slows down over time. That way, after awhile, a new computer that has very little advancement over the old one, seems to be this great leap forward in processing speed, only because it's new. They do this to get you to buy a new computer

And don't forget your tinfoil hats BTW

I glad you put about tin foil hats as i would be telling you that what you have written is the biggest load of bull ever heard!!!

As for the OP re-installing windows rarely fixes the problem, just makes it worse. As for speeds of the cpu, a 1.8 GHz core 2 will perform miles better than a 3.6GHz petium 4 cpu, dont forget to ntake cache size into account aswell, which i see you failed on as you went for an amd cpu

[PNCarl]

unless you overclock...speeds won't be getting to 4ghz for awhile. What they are going for is effeciency over speed because people are using their computers more which means they are using it for more stuff which all requires processing power so the more cores, more ram and more efficient hard drives that you see in the new computers allow for more things to happen on your computer at once.

Speeds wont be reaching 4GHZ because in real life usage then anything above 3.4 on a multi core cpu is unnoticable performance wise. Hard drives is an area where people foret about read/write latencies and the like, this is theone of the most fundamental part of switching a pc on, loading files, as well as ram. hard drives dont just have capacities they have speeds too.

[Kt-viagra]

True or false - the speed of the machine is determined by it's slowest component

[Zenunlild]

True or false - the speed of the machine is determined by it's slowest component

false.

the answer is the speed of the machine is determined by the idiots who build them.

mine is real slow

[portoskins]

True or false - the speed of the machine is determined by it's slowest component

Depends if we have components bottlenecking others, you need to know the whole system spec to determine this

[royarnekara]

Speeds wont be reaching 4GHZ because in real life usage then anything above 3.4 on a multi core cpu is unnoticable performance wise. Hard drives is an area where people foret about read/write latencies and the like, this is theone of the most fundamental part of switching a pc on, loading files, as well as ram. hard drives dont just have capacities they have speeds too.

solid slate disks...nom nom nom