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re: Should we care?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 9:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19387 messages posted)
Substantial analysis has been done on this topic, and it takes close to a 50% improvement
in performance before the user can really recognize that a system is indeed faster.
You can count dollars and cents in your checking account far better than you can
"feel" computer speed.
And since your biggest interest is presummably in online gaming, then you will see
no improvement at all, since you bottleneck is your modem.
On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:47 am, eoghan wrote:
>Speaking as someone on dial-up (cant get broadband) an SP3 download from work does
>the job 3 years (?) of updates would accomplish. Asa gamer I like the 10% speed
>increase - not much you say? well my last salary increase was 2% and I was glad
>to get it!
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>The review PCFormat is of the B-release which is "garnering performance boosts of
>around 10%" (Issue 210 Feb 2008 page 8)
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- re: Should we care? (eoghan: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:47 am)
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