Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM  Feb 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 726 It depends on what software you are using, and what you do with your PC.
If you are using apps that use a lot of RAM (e.g. Photoshop with multiple large images) then you need as much RAM as you... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 8th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 726 I would sell 2 of the the 512MB sticks on Ebay and with the proceeds buy an additional 1GB stick to match your spare 1GB stick. The cost difference would be small (maybe $30?) and you get 3GB in dual... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 4th, 2008 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 2,284 This is a generalization, that is only true in some circumstances. It really depends on what software you are running. |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 4th, 2008 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 2,284 Hyperthreading was a term Intel made up for a hardware feature they included on their P4CPUs which allowed multiple threads (and processes) to run partially in parallel on the CPU.
Hyperthreading... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,991 You can compare the Core 2 E4500 (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+E4500+%40+2.20GHz) and the Athlon X2 6000+ here... |
