Re: PC Requirements for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg60162] Re: PC Requirements for Mathematica
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:27:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Mike wrote: > My buddy is a retired analyst. His son built him a PC w/ 3.0G Celeron CPU, > 512MD RAM and Intel motherboard with 911 or 915 chipset. For a new PC it > seems slow to me. > > Questions: does Mathematica require a math coprocessor? What do you want in > a PC that's going to run Mathematica? > I don't know which Mathematica functions he's going to use. > > Mike > Hello, Surely the math coprocessor issue went away when the old 486 machines were replaced by Pentium one's about a decade ago! Every modern CPU can handle the instructions that used to be passed over to the coprocessor. Mathematica should certainly run fine on a machine with a spec like that, but if you have a specific very intensive algorithm in mind you might want to research it further. Many people do sophisticated things with Mathematica without ever stretching the CPU at all. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk