newtekie1
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Processor | Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz |
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Motherboard | AsRock Z470 Taichi |
Cooling | Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans |
Memory | 32GB DDR4-3600 |
Video Card(s) | RTX 2070 Super |
Storage | 500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28" |
Case | Fractal Design Define S |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard is good enough for me |
Power Supply | eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro x64 |
no. im saying that putting the cheapest stuff into pcs cripples them. i really dont get how a company sold a pc with 128mb ram and windows Xp on it
if you would you build a pc with this Sempron and put it 512mb ram and then installed Vista on it. you would have the same effect that i saw on that Celeron.
You arguments up until now had nothing to do with the cheapest stuff going into PCs, it was about the usefulness of single core processors like this Sempron.
And while 512MB might be the cheapest, the difference between 512MB and 1GB is something like $4, so you would be an idiot to build a computer with only 512MB of RAM. I wouldn't do it regardless of what OS I was putting on the system. Hell, I make it a policy to never build a machine with less than 2GB actually... But now you are going on about RAM, in a thread about processors, where you started arguing that single core processors aren't good for people who "multitask" because "Vista and 7 are optimized for dual cores", then you start talking about RAM...
We all know if you stick an idioticly small amount of RAM in a machine, it will perform like crap. That has nothing to do with the topic, and certainly adds nothing to back up your original statements about single core processor being too weak for multi-tasking and modern OSes.
The fact of the matter is that single core processor are still good enough for probably 75% of computer users. Most people surf the internet, check email, use Office, listen to music, sometime rip a CD, burn CDs, watch videos/movies/DVDs and thats about it. And they usually are not doing all that at the same time. None of that, even when done together, requires anything more than a single core processor.
Now would I build a machine using this processor? Under the right circumstances, yes. But it would have to be an extreme budget situation, because with the E1500 only $15 more, and the x2 240 only $20 more, it would be hard not to take a step up to those.