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sativa

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My wife is using the above CPU with 4Gb of RAM in her office -she only uses the machine for basic Office functions namely, Word/Outlook and perhaps some mild surfing.

She was advised the other day that the machine is quite old and slow and is due an upgrade?

Any thoughts - I can't see the justification beyond having the latest kit :confused:
 
that machine is definitely more than enough for those tasks. i'm a bit confused as to who is advising and what the issue is though.
 
Has he offered her dual xeon setup with few gtx titans running in SLI?? Because Microsoft office and internet browsing is well demanding these days... You might wanna throw in a Revo-Drive too.
 
sativa said:
The advisor was an IT advisor who installs security software on her machine etc
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lol, nuff said. I took my computer to the shop once to get fixed while I was away on Holiday, guy insisted that it needed an upgrade.

If I remember correctly having an Athlon 6400+ with 4GB of RAM and a X1950XTX was pretty much the best stuff you can get, he just wanted to sell me his intel crap.

Gotta be careful with these type of people.

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I would recommend upgrading that too.

People seem to look at these situations and say "its just office/IE, anything will do" but the are other factors like if its running antivirus, printer software/etc in the background, and what kind of office work, small word files or big spreadsheets and does she multitask a lot with many files open. The E6750 was one of the early "conroe" C2D CPU's so the motherboard and ram will also be pretty dated as well as the HDD.

Personally speaking, I would prefer something snappier, bear in mind you cannot buy a CPU that weak anymore, I get frustrated when using some of the older workstations in work (when I can't be bothered walking back to my office to do something) but it depends if you wife has used a decent machine whither or not she will notice the difference.
 
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The only risk is a hardware failure due to age. Having said that, if you have a backup regime and could be without the desktop for a day or so, that hazard is minimised.

Could look at a basic AMD trinity APU system with DDR3 as an update when necessary.
 
E6750? Meh that's fine for those tasks. The IT Advisor may be getting annoyed with the hard disk drive speed though, and trying to suggest upgrading the lot for a bit of extra work...

An SSD may be a worthwhile investment however as it will help speed up the system as a whole.
 
I've been playing HD videos off a passive cooled mobile athlon XP at 1.7GHz with a HD3450, as well as multimedia web browsing, word processing and excel. It's not slow at all.

The only issue might be the HDD. If you want to make an old system speedy you can just put an SSD in it, or at the very least the 500/1TB seagate HDDs are extremely quick.
 
Your cpu is fine for those tasks. But if you want to upgrade it i would suggest to replace it with a Core 2 Quad Q6600.
 
I would suggest trying a reinstall of Windows before thinking about upgrading. I do this twice a year and it makes a big difference, everything feels snappier. I also would suggest a clean ( with a vacuum and brush) to clear out that dust :-)
 
ubersonic said:
I would recommend upgrading that too.

People seem to look at these situations and say "its just office/IE, anything will do" but the are other factors like if its running antivirus, printer software/etc in the background, and what kind of office work, small word files or big spreadsheets and does she multitask a lot with many files open. The E6750 was one of the early "conroe" C2D CPU's so the motherboard and ram will also be pretty dated as well as the HDD.

Personally speaking, I would prefer something snappier, bear in mind you cannot buy a CPU that weak anymore, I get frustrated when using some of the older workstations in work (when I can't be bothered walking back to my office to do something) but it depends if you wife has used a decent machine whither or not she will notice the difference.
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LOL. It's more fine for that sort of work. It's not that early a CPU - it's the first of the 1333MHz bus chips and has a decent amount of cache.
 
sativa said:
My wife is using the above CPU with 4Gb of RAM in her office -she only uses the machine for basic Office functions namely, Word/Outlook and perhaps some mild surfing.

She was advised the other day that the machine is quite old and slow and is due an upgrade?

Any thoughts - I can't see the justification beyond having the latest kit :confused:
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In that case she can use E6750 for eternity :D
 
ubersonic said:
I would recommend upgrading that too.

People seem to look at these situations and say "its just office/IE, anything will do" but the are other factors like if its running antivirus, printer software/etc in the background, and what kind of office work, small word files or big spreadsheets and does she multitask a lot with many files open. The E6750 was one of the early "conroe" C2D CPU's so the motherboard and ram will also be pretty dated as well as the HDD.

Personally speaking, I would prefer something snappier, bear in mind you cannot buy a CPU that weak anymore, I get frustrated when using some of the older workstations in work (when I can't be bothered walking back to my office to do something) but it depends if you wife has used a decent machine whither or not she will notice the difference.
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Indeed, in our work we've got the E6600 with 2GB RAM, but with everything that's going on, I had a look at the RAM usage today, and we're talking 78%, and I could easily max that out by turning on Youtube HD (Which also made the CPU go rather high too considering)

Boss is always complaining about the PC being slow.

Then on the other hand, we've an E2200 with 2GB RAM, that isn't running the same stuff, it's only at 30% RAM usage and the snappiest of the lot.
 
"The advisor was an IT advisor who installs security software on her machine etc "

LOL, such advisor who installs some CPU-demanding software and can't look info 'msconfig' saying "no power, upgrade only" is rather seller than advisor.

Clean up your wife's HDD, I'd bet it's (any of those):
* almost full,
* trashed with some unwelcome software (*ware),
* having some filesystem errors, and/or big defragmentation,
* maybe contains some badblocks, or soft badblocks which leads to the same.
 
ubersonic said:
Personally speaking, I would prefer something snappier, bear in mind you cannot buy a CPU that weak anymore, e.
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you can buy machines that would be slower. seen a few 1.2ghz amd desktops sold by the PC place an god are they slow

CPU is powerful - possibly the machine needs a reinstall I would never suggest upgrading such a machine unless it was a cad / design / gaming power house
 
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