Re: Pentium 3 versus Pentium, also memory, bus speeds
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- Subject: [mg30455] Re: Pentium 3 versus Pentium, also memory, bus speeds
- From: dek at cgl.ucsf.edu (David Konerding)
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:41:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:09:11 +0000 (UTC), Arthur Billingsley <billinga1 at home.com> wrote: > Bill, > > Lacking your full requirements, the decision should rest > on the question "Can/Does the current hardware support/run > the software needed for this research/job??? > > If so, continue to use until no longer true. Reason being, at some > point the answer will be no if not maybe not. Then it is time to > invest in new hardware. The paradigm of upgrading is no longer > relevant with new computer prices at $1000. HTH unless, of course, when the answer to the question "does the current hardware run the software needed" is "it does, but one component, the RAM, is the rate-limiting factor". Or, some other easily upgraded component, like the CPU, the drive, or the network card is the rate-limiting factor. 256MB is $40, if you only have 128MB and Mathematica needs 192MB to do its job without paging excessively, then upgrading to a new $1000 machine with 128MB would be a very expensive mistake. Dave