Best CPU for daily use ?

Why is this being argued into the ground? The train is off the rails, on fire and people are screaming. :( OP was asking about cpu choices...not what OS works best...
 
Jamebonds1 said:
It didn't running fastest. Every if you playing old game, it will be pretty slowest. You really need to stop say that windows 7 will running better than XP on old computer. Other people already say it won't running very well for program that need more CPU space. I used to have single core AMD 64 and I have XP then now 7. Which one windows version running smooth for call of duty WAW? XP.
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Gaming has nothing to do with it. Alot of games did run better in xp. But games alone dont determine how good an operating system is.....

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G80FTW said:
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Hey genius, It took 3:30 to start. I say windows 95 would be alot better for that PC. I had a pentium 100mhz and 16mb ram, it ran win95 no problem. It would never run 7. Where are you gettings these ideas?

On my celeron laptop 1gb ram, it ranXP fine. Windows 7, it was so slow, and kept freezing and overheating. Went back to XP and no problem.

On my pentium 4 2.8ghz 2gb ram, XP ran much faster than 7. Aso used way less off the 40gb hdd.

So tell us, where did you find that win7 is lighter than 95? Guessing?
 
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Hyper-Threaded said:
So tell us, where did you find that win7 is lighter than 95? Guessing?
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ON my core 2 duo laptops, I have seen little difference in the heat and sluggishness from 2000 to vista and 7. Lot of HDD space and RAM differences, but that is to be expected.

Really, I do think he was guessing.
 
Hyper-Threaded said:
Hey genius, It took 3:30 to start. I say windows 95 would be alot better for that PC. I had a pentium 100mhz and 16mb ram, it ran win95 no problem. It would never run 7. Where are you gettings these ideas?

On my celeron laptop 1gb ram, it ranXP fine. Windows 7, it was so slow, and kept freezing and overheating. Went back to XP and no problem.

On my pentium 4 2.8ghz 2gb ram, XP ran much faster than 7. Aso used way less off the 40gb hdd.

So tell us, where did you find that win7 is lighter than 95? Guessing?
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Hey genius, its a 167MHz Pentium processor circa 1994. It would take that long on ANY operating system.

I had a Pentium 133MHz with 32MB of RAM and Windows 95 and it took well over a few minutes to boot up. Literally. And to even browse the web it would take a few minutes just to load up the browser...

Even my 1GHz Pentium 3 in my laptop takes well over 2 minutes to boot up, thats not even including loading the small amount of programs on it and that is Windows XP.

Obviously Windows 7 is not going to work magic with a 167MHz processor, but its a better choice over any other Windows.


As for your experiences, Im sorry. But my P4 with even 512MB of RAM ran windows 7 much smoother than XP.
 
G80FTW said:
Obviously Windows 7 is not going to work magic with a 167MHz processor, but its a better choice over any other Windows.
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Not really. Try finding Windows 7 drivers for a 15 year old machine which has a 167MHz Pentium and other ancient hardware. That'd prove to be a challenge in its own right.

Windows 7 runs well on old hardware to some extent, ran it on a 2004 PC ok, but any older than that and I think you'd start getting issues. Finding motherboard drivers for that 2004 PC which worked on Windows 7 was a bit of a challenge.
 
vistakid10 said:
Not really. Try finding Windows 7 drivers for a 15 year old machine which has a 167MHz Pentium and other ancient hardware. That'd prove to be a challenge in its own right.

Windows 7 runs well on old hardware to some extent, ran it on a 2004 PC ok, but any older than that and I think you'd start getting issues. Finding motherboard drivers for that 2004 PC which worked on Windows 7 was a bit of a challenge.
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Yes, hardware compatibility I think would be the only obstacle. And from what I read, Windows 7 is pretty flexible in that department as well. I personally had no problem running Windows 7 on 2004 hardware and finding drivers. But something pre-2000 could prove a challenge but I will find out when I decide to put 7 on my laptop assuming it has enough disk space. I think its a 13GB hdd but I dont remember. May be 16gb.
 
I got pretty much all the hardware to work on that 2004 PC with Windows 7 x64 eventually. I was only missing the SATA RAID driver and an audio driver in the end I think. SATA RAID didn't bother me because SATA RAID on the particular Gigabyte board I was using didn't work well anyway, and Windows was installed on an IDE drive anyway, and to get round the audio issue I just put in a cheap sound card which worked.

Finding drivers did take a while and a bit of hunting though. Had to use Vista x64 drivers in the end though I think. Not sure if x86 would be more compatible or not, probably.
 
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