Oh yeah, I've seen them come back to being like a brand new computer again
after 4 or 5 years of use, if you reload everything. It's amazing how they
slow down and you don't even notice.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: RFI problem.
> You are definitely running a bit more horsepower than my biggest box,
> which
> has a Intel dual core processor (I forget the clock speed) and 1 GB of
> RAM. The older box, the one that really needs a hardware synthesizer is
> using a 1.7 Gig AMD Athelon with 512 MB, and it gets pretty pokey at
> times. I've thought about replacing it with a new computer as even the
> low
> end boxes will fly in comparison with it as long as I run Windows XP.
> But,
> then, I've also thought about just ripping this one apart and putting more
> RAM in, and doing a fresh install of the operating system and all drivers
> on the premise that over five years, there is undoubtedly at least some
> corruption in the operating system just from the number of things that
> have
> been installed and uninstalled from the machine. I've seen a reload of
> the
> OS completely change the personality of the machine.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 09:39 PM 6/6/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>>Most computers come with 1 gif of memory now if you look. Hyper threading
>>technology, and what ever the AMD equivalent is, makes a huge difference.
>>I
>>have yet to slow this computer down. My radio desk computer I can slow
>>down
>>if I try hard, but this computer with 2 gigs of ram, XP SP2, a 3.0 gig
>>processor with hyper threading technology, I have yet to find a way to
>>slow
>>this thing down. I have 2 sound cards in it, a tv tuner card, more
>>equipment
>>hooked up than any sane person would ever need, it's crazy.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:31 PM
>>Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>>
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > I have to disagree with you, Colin. It depends upon what you are
>> > asking
>> > the machine to do. I have seen situations where a fast processor could
>> > still bog down with a software synthesizer provided that it was doing
>> > something else fairly processor intensive such as CD ripping or sound
>> > editing. I can't speak to how much of an issue two sound cards are
>> > because
>> > I've frankly never tried it, but I can think of plenty of circumstances
>> > where the machine didn't have enough horsepower with Eloquence running,
>> > but
>> > as soon as I cut over to the DEC Express, it straightened right out.
>> > I'm
>> > thinking that with all the stuff you have to run to keep a system
>> > secure,
>> > that going up to 1 GB of memory wouldn't go amiss anymore. That has
>> > become
>> > the standard memory size at work now.
>> >
>> > I've wondered if this system would get snappier again if I backed it
>> > back
>> > down to Windows XP SP1 which is what it was running when I bought the
>> > machine. I've also thought about just nuking the drive and starting
>> > over. Probably not a bad idea.
>> >
>> > That might get some of the snappiness back.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> > At 10:14 PM 6/5/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>> >>yes, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago, machine instability, crashing windows
>> >>and
>> >>over worked processors were an issue.
>> >>I would step out on a limb and say that anything that has a modern
>> >>processor, 2.8GB and up with 512 or more of ram shouldn't ever have a
>> >>problem running two sound cards.
>> >>I suppose that in the case of the old pentium 1 or 2 or 3 shack box,
>> >>that
>> >>stability and resources could be a problem, but certainly not generally
>> >>speaking about modern systems.
>> >>And booting from DOS? now your showing your age. And so am I for all
>> >>that
>> >>lol.
>> >>73
>> >>Colin, V A6BKX
>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:02 PM
>> >>Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines.
>> >> > It
>> >> > is
>> >> > still handy to have real speech at dos. You can dig yourself out of
>> >>trouble
>> >> > if windows won't boot. You can run talking dos and dos programs
>> >> > from
>> >> > the
>> >> > desktop. You can take the extra load off the processor if things
>> >> > get
>> >>tight.
>> >> >
>> >> >
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