How slow is your PC?

dr. sarf

dr. sarf

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I'm perhaps not referring to your own system here, but one that you use regularly; a work PC maybe. Or it may actually be your own PC!

I'm currently at work (yes allowed to use internet freely) but this PC is the worst one I've ever used. So incredibly slow - the slowest PC I've used in a long time.

I've just shut the PC down, and from clicking the XP "Turn Off" button to the PC actually shutting off power took 71seconds.

Then from pressing the start button to windows loading (loads messenger on auto start) and then clicking Internet Explorer til "about:blank" loads: 140seconds. It struggles to toggle between 2 windows at times. hehe

I'm guessing you want the Spec now?
Celeron 2.6Ghz
40GB Hard Drive
256MB RAM
XP Home

Just sat here waiting for the PC all the time, wondered if anyone out there is using a similarly infuriatingly slow PC. lol

My partner has a 633mhz Celeron that runs better. BTW - it's long overdue a fresh OS install is this. :rolleyes:

This isnt a thread to discuss what could be done to speed the PC up (I know what to do there!), just like to know if anyone else has to endure a pathetic computer. lol
 
Wow.. a whole 71 seconds to shut down....lol. Yesterday mine took 7 minutes. when i first started this job, it took 4 hours to log on, and considering I started at 1 and finished at half 5 :s

I do most of the work in the office yet seem to have the worst pc, no dvd rom (yes rom) means no cd writing, 248mb of ram (pc2700) 8mb shared grafx and it continually grinds to a halt after opening my email and an explorer for web work, not to mention all the word and accounts stuff i have to use. 3 years use and of this and I have no hair left..

although i did get for myself a 512mb stick for home use, but plonked it on here instead.

Spec for this is:

Pentium 4 @ 2.66 running xp pro sp2
248mb ram (@760 at mo)
40gb hdd
cd rom drive

Luckily we are all getting a refit soon as we have to get Dalet installed instead of Enco DAD and we are getting a crate of 19" monitors delivered tomorrow and new machines next month :D so I'm holding off plugging my amiga 600 into the network for that speed boost I crave.
 
i have 2 pcs at work one for testing our software on boxs and over for office

crap pc tqakes 3 mins to turn on

2.8 P4 with HT
512mb ram

best pc
E6600
2GB Ram
 
one of my relatives pc was horrid to use. about 4 years without a format, 400+viruses, adware and spyware, drivers installed over old drivers it even had viruses is system32 and other vital places (no firewall, antivirus or anti spyware programs installed), this was coupled with a user that clicked on every popup that appeared (including the ones that say free antivirus (usually meanign here have a virus or a trojon from us))

it was a 1.2GHZ athlon MP with 256mb of ram and a 40 GB IDE hdd (5400rpm)

it doesnt boot with a usb hdd plugged in and it usually crashed when trying to shut down resulting in the need to turn off the power!

took days to sort out as they had stuff on there and no backups were ever made!
 
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I fixed a PC for someone the other day...does that count?

Anyway...this is 4 months old vista machine...cheap and shares 512 of ram with graphics card.
When she first got it, it seemed Ok.ish...when I got it to fix she had installed a few programs.
Only stuff for Ipod / antivirus wireless network card etc and it crawled.
I turned of a few vista services to help it, but was still slow.

I can honesty say an old P3 733 on XP with 348 MBs of ram was faster.

Beware of the so called £400 bargains with shared 512 of ram running vista.
 
If you even have to endure a pc at works thats slow just thank them for not upgrading as it allows you to have a break while the pc thinks about doing some work.

If the pc was an employee it would be sacked for wasting time! :D
 
Crappy Dell D600, Pentium M @ 1.4ghz. Because we're on a DMZ and out network routes via Islamabad/camel/28.8 modem it takes a total of 12 minutes from power on to "usable" state as it spends so long waiting to contact the domain controller.

It's not a whole lot better off the network, because the lame true mobile drivers kick in the wireless and it spends even longer trying to contact the DC over the internet. Lame.
 
firewallblocked said:
If you even have to endure a pc at works thats slow just thank them for not upgrading as it allows you to have a break while the pc thinks about doing some work.
Click to expand...

I dont actually use the PC at work for anything work related. In fact, my current job has no need for a PC at all. But it's just here, on broadband and Boss lets me have free reign, so long as my duties get done on time :cool:
 
Up until somewhat recently my main work rig was:
733 MHz Pentium III
384 MiB PC133 RAM (maxed out)
nVidia TNT2 Riva 16 MiB
40 GB Quantum Fireball, 7200 RPM
running Debian Sarge
 
I was using an Athlon 800 + 256mb PC100 SDRAM + 20Gb HDD + S3 graphics + 15" CRT running Win2000 in the company where I did placement last year...

Until it borked and I had to wait a week for the IT guy to replace it with a Williamate P4 1.6Ghz + 256mb PC133 SDRAM + 40Gb HDD which was not much better...
 
Worst machine I have to use is a Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 with a 1.86GHz Core2 Duo and 4GB RAM, working in the IT department ensures you get the decent kit and pass on the hand-me-down to the End Losers, er I mean End Users.
 
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