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Processor speed con?
I've always wondered just how important it is to get the latest all-singing processor rather than one a rung or two down.
It's interesting to look at advice on how to upgrade an old computer. The prevailing wisdom is to boost RAM first, then hard disk size. As to swapping the processor - apparently it's not worth the hassle and cost for the small performance increase.
If that's true of a system that's now second-hand, wasn't it true when that same machine was new? Yet people would have paid far more for the fastest machines of the time.
And isn't the logic just as true for today's new machines? Lots more money for the very top flight, but not a huge speed benefit. In fact, isn't the stress on processor speed just a con?
Kevin Overbury
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