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You need an Athlon 64 to have a fast computer and excellent gaming. Wrong. @ my house, I have my personal PC with an nForce 2 Ultra 400 motherboard, an Athlon XP2000+ @ 3000+, and 512MB of Kingston's HyperX PC3200 RAM as well as an FX5200 AGP. Our family computer, an HP Pavilion 734n, has a VIA KM266 chipset and 512MB PC2100 RAM, along with an Athlon XP2400+. This computer sports a GeForce 4 MX420.
My mom's laptop has a 1.6GHz P4, with 1GB of RAM, and an FX Go graphics card. Yet, she has the fastest computer in the whole house.
I think the 1GB of RAM makes the most difference; exclude a fast processor and fast GPU. And no, the Intel processor is not the reason for the speed boost over the other 2 AMD systems. B)
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1 GB of RAM really does such a big difference, before I upgraded my Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo 800ix, it had 512 MB and oh boy was it slow! Now, when I've upgraded, I can't believe how I could have lived with 512 MB in the first place.
I am using 512MB of RAM on my Gateway machine, not sure what my processor speed is, but I know it isn't over 1GHZ, and I cannot wait until I get my new computer with 1GB of RAM, so that Photoshop won't take forever to load! :P
It might help with that, but all Adobe software takes ages to load, so you might not get as much of a boost as what you think you will.
That is why I still use Photoshop 7. The newer ones just feel so much more bloated and don't have anything extra that I really need.
I juse use Adobe's PhotoDeluxe. Though it doesn't have near the options that Photoshop does, it's got what I need for most pictures, and you don't have to wade through all the other stuff.
I have a 5 year old comp - it remained untouched for about 4 of the 5 years. But a few months ago I insalled a new graphics card and some memory, from 256 - 512, honestly, I didn't really notice too much difference (maybe because of the ammount of crap I have on their) but a day ago, a new MoBo Gfx card PSU, CPU and memory arrived, complete revamp. I don't know if it was the fact I have lost practally all of the rubbish that was on my computer. But it is way faster, and I mean way. Startup takes about 15seconds, and before it took about 6minutes. It was hell. So the fact that I have moved up to 1Gig of RAM has made a massive, massive, difference and I would highly recommend getting your computer upto that standard if you have not already.
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I have a 5 year old comp - it remained untouched for about 4 of the 5 years. But a few months ago I insalled a new graphics card and some memory, from 256 - 512, honestly, I didn't really notice too much difference (maybe because of the ammount of crap I have on their) but a day ago, a new MoBo Gfx card PSU, CPU and memory arrived, complete revamp. I don't know if it was the fact I have lost practally all of the rubbish that was on my computer. But it is way faster, and I mean way. Startup takes about 15seconds, and before it took about 6minutes. It was hell. So the fact that I have moved up to 1Gig of RAM has made a massive, massive, difference and I would highly recommend getting your computer upto that standard if you have not already.
Did you reinstall Windows? If not, I can't wait till I go with 1GB.
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