Re: PC Requirements for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg60169] Re: PC Requirements for Mathematica
- From: "Mike" <wxyz09 at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:27:26 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes,, I know realize the math co pro is present and only cache is limited with Celeron. Mike "David Bailey" <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk> wrote in message news:dfgorv$n2g$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 >