[Car54]

The title of this thread is taken directly from Toms Hardware. I just thought it was an interesting article, and that many of the techies here at PCWorld might find it interesting. If this thread needs to be moved or taken down, due to it not fulfilling the Forums rules, I understand. :)



The main page has a Table of Contents towards the top, in case you just want to check one subject of intrest.

[bbvammy]

Windows - as many cores as possible to post this.

Linux - single core.

Mac - need a loan for each core.

]:)

[Car54]

lol, :)

[crazy4laptops]

windows vista- quad core cpu and a boatload of ram 6gb +

windows 7- single or dual core cpu and 2gb of ram

server- as many as possible and even more ram

linux- single or dual core is all ubuntu needs and 1gb of ram

its actually not so much a cpu core/speed issue anymore... today's hard drives are too slow (the data is processed faster than it can be read/written/retrieved)

sata is helping, but its not fast enough (think a raid 5 SSD array)

[Car54]

crazy4, are the newer solid state hard drives making an improvement on that transfer speed?

[crazy4laptops]

yes, it is improving some... but its still not quite fast enough

the raid array will be much faster in data speed than a single hard drive