E6750

[ishoeyi]

I still have a e6750 pc with a 7750 gpu at my work.
I can play modern games smooth at 1280x1080 with medium details

it is fast enough for office software in my opinion

throwing in some more ram might be nice since its so cheap but even at that its overkill.

 

[archerz]

as above id upgrade to a nice swift SSD hdd. one of the best upgrades i did on my Q9550 system.

 

[Glaucus]

I still game on an e6300 with 4gb of ram, it is more than powerful for office tasks.
however I am looking to upgrade the cpu, starting to play cpu limited games which only make use of single core.

the only upgrades I would consider is ssd and win8 both massively help performance as well as boot times, I wouldn't even consider more ram, not for general office apps.

 

[Inferno99]

I'm running an E6320 on Windows 8 / Office 2013 and it runs really well. Although an SSD would obviously make it run faster its not essential if you have a half decent HDD - W8 boots up and launches the MS Office applications really quick on my aging Spinpoint F1.

 

[PCZ]

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

In a corporate environment machines are loaded with all manner of carp.
Worst of which are the corporate antivirus suites with all features turned on.
Add to that disc encryption and corporate spyware/monitoring software and the machines grind to a halt.