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Windows 7 – 4GB vs 8GB Performance
When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it: At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]
Continue reading...Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Introduction When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit). After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things: Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) 25% Faster Than Core 2 Platforms
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Thanks goes out to Grant Gochnauer for sending in some links about the new Intel Core i7 “Nehalem” launch. While not quite the “50-100% faster” claims that Intel was making… or even the “50% faster across the board” claims they made, Nehalem is still looking like a nice upgrade over the current Core 2 architecture. Just [...]
Continue reading...DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?
Monday, February 11, 2008
Summary: NO (Incase you don’t want to read further) I set out to build myself a new desktop recently and one of the decisions I had to make was “Do I go with DDR3, or stick with DDR2?”, then of course if you stick with DDR2, do you go with oldie 800 ram or shoot for [...]
Continue reading...How Important is Fast Memory?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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