destroyah3034 Posted January 23, 2006 CID Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hello there insideout, Sorry about the huge delay in replying, just the instant message for the new post was barely received today on the 22nd. Anyways about your questions: 1st: About the usage of the CPU being 100%, it depends on what your running at that time, considering that the proc is dual core you should see on task manager, on the performance screen two cpu meters and two cpu graphs, not just one, otherwise your cpu or cpu driver is not installed correctly. 2nd: Depending on how many programs are running in the background will determine how many processes are displayed on the processes screen of task manager. I think that a clean install of XP PRO SP2 usually has a normal range of 16-30+ish, (really depends on what options you have installed); once you install software onto your system that number may grow and may slow down your system a bit, depending on what the program is doing. 3rd: Low latency situations? It just means applications that benefit from getting as much information from point A to point B in as little time as is possible. Hence, if you look at ram latency, I get a latency of 41 nanoseconds in PC Wizard 2006, you can find this program at www.cpuid.org. Anyways, the lower the latency, the quicker your proc, whether it be AMD or Intel, will get the data it needs to run whatever it is your running. That's why games usually run better on AMD procs by an order of almost 10-15% or more depending on the game or other factors which are too numerous to list. Note: The value in ns above was benched using DDR548 ram at 2.5-4-4-8 2T Mushkin DDR550 dual channel ram. If you still don't understand, just post back and I will check soon. By the way, that Sony pc is nice, just needs a better graphics card like a 7800GT. They're selling quite well on Newegg.com for about 279-340 USD. Other than that, that system is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resijs Posted January 24, 2006 CID Share Posted January 24, 2006 I use a Celeron D, it was a MAJOR jump from my old Celeron A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted January 24, 2006 CID Share Posted January 24, 2006 I use a Celeron D, it was a MAJOR jump from my old Celeron A. the celeron D is not a bad chip. its much better then the sempron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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