Does anyone here still use a single core pc?

milkinc13 · 16 Jan 2011 at 18:22

only at work, a P4 2GB RAM with Windows 7 pro which crawls along

dom6918 · 16 Jan 2011 at 19:59

3200 xp

not even 64 bit lol it's my main pc.. But then I'm upgrading to a sandybridge 2600 K.. It's been a long road bit I'll be able to play crisis soon!!

in 3D too

Frozennova · 16 Jan 2011 at 20:54

Nada, last single core in the house was an Athlon 64 that was replace with an Athlon X2. My fileserver was nearly filled with a Sempron 140, but I snapped up a bargain on an Athlon II 235e which offers an extra core for the same TDP.

My dad who used to be a serial upgrader is still using a Pentium 4 Prescott on an early s775 Abit Fatil1ty board.

wannabedamned · 16 Jan 2011 at 21:03

AMD 939 Opteron 146 @ 3 ghz. And do you know what? It was only on the release of Mass effect 2 that I stopped being able to play games properly.

Shayper · 17 Jan 2011 at 02:39

Up until the start of last year I was running a Celeron D with integrated graphics, and to be fair the only thing it couldn't do, apart from video editing, which I only do now anyway, was game. Even audio editing (Reason) was easily usable with 2gb of ram installed

Gazza123 · 17 Jan 2011 at 03:31

Wait your telling me you can have 1 core on its own and it works? Impossible!!!

Dinkas · 17 Jan 2011 at 04:41

Atom netbook (which I'll be upgrading once AMD's alternative is readily available) and a P3 500 (downclocked to run passive) for old 16bit games.

Subliminal Aura · 17 Jan 2011 at 05:26

Pentium M 900mhz Laptop. 10W idle - 14W load measured at the plug ! :eek:

Used as a torrent server with the NAS

Athlon XP-M 2500 (cheating here) as it also has a DXVA gpu and so can play HD material

Whilst today's latest and greatest machines and their bloated BIOSs are still trying to boot the above are already in windows or linux :rolleyes:

zipp0r · 18 Jan 2011 at 21:25

i actually cant stream HD video from iplayer, i get 95% cpu usage and about 10fps from this [email protected]:/

Subliminal Aura · 18 Jan 2011 at 21:42

zipp0r said:
i actually cant stream HD video from iplayer, i get 95% cpu usage and about 10fps from this [email protected]:/

It's in the wrong hands... See above post, the key is overloading the processing onto the gpu.

I get 5-10% cpu load on my dated athlon when offloading to the gpu

OspreyO · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:24

While older PC's I find the things that really kill it are AV and web stuff.

MagicBoy · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:33

OspreyO said:
While older PC's I find the things that really kill it are AV and Flash.

Fixed that for you :-)

Blue160 · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:34

Atom powered netbook (although it is hyper-threaded). Bought the cheapest I could find so I'd have more to spend on bits for the main rig

OspreyO · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:55

MagicBoy said:
Fixed that for you

: )

MrElve · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:05

My old PC at my parents house which still has some pretty good media use runs an intel pentium 4

Legless · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:54

Opps... Wrong thread...

zipp0r · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:53

Subliminal Aura said:
It's in the wrong hands... See above post, the key is overloading the processing onto the gpu.

I get 5-10% cpu load on my dated athlon when offloading to the gpu

what gpu ? i have a 7800gt

Efour · 20 Jan 2011 at 02:23

My "lounge browsing" laptop is a 1.6 PentiumM centrino thing :O
Single core special.. Takes about 3 minutes to boot but Firefox runs just fine on Ubuntu

shannowdr · 20 Jan 2011 at 10:54

Old p4 desktop running Northgate Reality database on windows xp for work.

Makes a great monitor stand.

Subliminal Aura · 20 Jan 2011 at 12:44

zipp0r said:
what gpu ? i have a 7800gt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo

VDPAU not supported

I have a HD2400pro

Efour2 said:
My "lounge browsing" laptop is a 1.6 PentiumM centrino thing :O
Single core special.. Takes about 3 minutes to boot but Firefox runs just fine on Ubuntu

That's a bit slow, I too have a 900mhz Pentium M in the lounge. Ubuntu/fluxbox setup boots in less than 30 seconds :eek: