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Need some advice for a $200 computer
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09-08-2013, 08:45 AM
middlin' CPUs are actually cheaper than the larger RAM sticks, and since I'm looking at a micro-ATX board with only two slots with intent to fill them with a matched pair, I'd just be buying RAM twice - and I can use extra ram immediately, but a cpu choking on a small pipe just wastes power on idle cycles. My uncle's quad-core laptop never gets above half-load on the CPU meter, even when I have it chugging away on a Blender render that should be gobbling all the clock cycles it can.
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[No subject] - by ClassicDrogn - 09-07-2013, 02:21 AM
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