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What's the purpose of a Dual Socket Mobo?
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Re: What's the purpose of a Dual Socket Mobo? -
05-20-2007
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I'm suspecting you don't have a CPU bottleneck causing your result, perhaps insufficient memory? Try rebooting the system then using it typically, and after running such a job and closing it when you see these long lags, you should open Task Manager and compare the "Commit Charge", "Peak" value to the "Physical Memory", "Total" value. The Peak should be at least a couple hundred MB below the Total for good performance (even more than a couple hundred really, considering the level of multitasking). Thanks for the comments. I have 1gig Memory installed Commit Charge Peak is 960644K Physical Memory 1048048k This less than 200mb free. Do you think I lack memory even with 1 gig installed I plan to Have 2 Gig memory in new Computer |
It's not as bad as I thought it might be, but yes you would
benefit from more than 1GB. I still don't think opening or
closing a few dozen MB file should take over 2 minutes
though, that is a pretty long time.
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scotttews (AT) noemail (DOT) com wrote: 2) Use a program like Photoshop. Work on an image. Press the filter button. When you do, half the image is computed on one socket and half the image is computed on the other socket. Your filter operation happens in half the time. These are ideal situations. There will be lots of situations where the second socket isn't helping you at all. Paul |
there is just a small bit of overstatement here I suspect - at least for
now. I have an older (now spare) dual processor P3 that I've messed with to
determine when the second processor gets used. On that machine (running W2K
and XP), the 2nd processor sat idle almost 100% of the time (putting out
heat, making noise, and drawing power). Few programs are written in a way to
take advantage of that second processor in a user environment (rather than a
server), photoshop is one program that will, however. Just because it's
there won't mean that it will be used - most of the time it will sit idle -
at least with much of the current software out there.
As I understand it, Vista will better be able to make use of dual processors
and multicore processors and new software will continually come out that
will better use it also. ...but right now, your money is probably better
spent on upgrading other components instead of getting 2 processors. ...and
I think that this is the implication of your question.
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:52:58 +1000, DJT dtope (AT) hotmail (DOT) com.au> wrote: I'm suspecting you don't have a CPU bottleneck causing your result, perhaps insufficient memory? Try rebooting the system then using it typically, and after running such a job and closing it when you see these long lags, you should open Task Manager and compare the "Commit Charge", "Peak" value to the "Physical Memory", "Total" value. The Peak should be at least a couple hundred MB below the Total for good performance (even more than a couple hundred really, considering the level of multitasking). Thanks for the comments. I have 1gig Memory installed Commit Charge Peak is 960644K Physical Memory 1048048k This less than 200mb free. Do you think I lack memory even with 1 gig installed I plan to Have 2 Gig memory in new Computer It's not as bad as I thought it might be, but yes you would benefit from more than 1GB. I still don't think opening or closing a few dozen MB file should take over 2 minutes though, that is a pretty long time. |
formulas with references to other cells and worksheets, some of which
are not open.
I often wait 30-40 sec's when I move data or inset a column or row
due to the number of references involved.
DJT
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