Anyone have a 1ghz?

[Warthog]

Just curious. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Do you know if there is a significant speed advantage over, say, an 800?

I never thought differences in processor mhz made a huge impact on regular, flat out speed. My dad's comp, a 233mhz PII and my old comp, a 400mhz Celeron, both with 64mb RAM, opened apps at about the same speed. Later, when I had 192mb RAM, there was definately a difference.

Warthog

[Roy]

I've been running an 850 at 1007 or more for several weeks. It does make a difference. Everything has a new "snap".

One place where it really matters is loading W98. I have the splash screen killed, and what goes on behind it really flies. The long black pause with the flashing cursor (while the Registry does it's thing) is shorter too.

How much better it can get is a mystery, but I'll go faster when I can. The new stepping processors just out should be good to around 1200, maybe more. The new 850 looks like the most overclockable choice, considering 8.5 multiplier and available FSBs.

[NDC]

Besides what Roy has said above , you wont notice BIG difference for the dollars, that is unless you are running graphic intensive applications or programs that take heavy use of the CPU. I have used a 1GHz system, but it gets nowhere near the performance that my Dual Pentium 3 733Mhz does. But like I said, that is only in the cased of grphics and animation programs. But if you mainly use the Internet, word processing, 3-d games, etc, you wont get the BIG BANG for the bucks that you invested.

[Warthog]

Ok. Cool. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog