Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Sat Nov 5 09:26:40 CDT 2011
There is no question that John's talent for building these high performance servers is very valuable. However, for most workstations, I think anything beyond a dual core processor is a huge waste of CPU Cycles. I was at a client site on Friday working with a 3 year old workstation running Vista. After running a week or so with my poorly tuned AMD "Frankenbuild", even that Vista workstation was abjectly S L O W. I was shocked ! All of the gaming guys on the forums had been panning MY SYSTEM as slow, slow,slow. Unless you are building a server, I think anything over 4 gigs RAM is a huge waste....especially if you've got an SSD. > Meanwhile, we pensioners subsist with a mere 4 gigs of RAM and a single > duo-core processor. I guess JC's in that 1% we're hearing so much about > lately LOL.