Okay, my second video of the day today is going to be about Windows Vista and your processes in your computer. So here we go. Now there’s the dual-core, quad-core and solo-core right now. Solo is one, dual is two, and quad is four, if you don’t know that. Now I have actually three laptops right now and two of which are dual cores and the other one is a solo-core in the.
So what I’m on now is my pavilion and this is Amd Turion 64x2. I open up the system properties here so you can see there it is 64x2 that just mean two-core or dual-core TL60at both core is operating at about 2 gigs. So as simple as that, it’s a pretty good process or this Vista being in the 4.8 it wasn’t that bad. So anyways, it’s that if you’re using Windows Vista in a solo-sore I would recommend personally upgrading to a dual-core because the solo-core really isn’t as powerful. Now I’ve got a Dell dimension E510 desktop. It’s their in its Pentium 4 at 3 GHz, not the solo core and it’s only rated at the 4.2 but that’s fine. I mean you have a higher clock speed like 2.8 GHz or over in a solo-core I wouldn’t worry about. But the dual-core I do highly recommend upgrading to that. I know it is the tremendous difference.
Now let’s go into the cache. Cache of a processor is what the processor does before it actually uses it like all cache start like that. The data in the start menu has been cache to a final right now, probably temp, so the next time I open that file, the next time I open the start menu it doesn’t have to go and see what I have in to start next. It’s already there, so it doesn’t have to do it again. On processor’s just a couple of Meg cache or like this one on each core I have a half of megabyte which isn’t the best. I don’t know why Amd does that, I’m not really an Amd fan.
Now, and I think that I’ve got a V61T and on each core and its Intel Core Duo T2500 on each core I believe I have a Meg or 2 Meg cache on each core. I think it’s a Meg. So that’s a 2 Meg cache and that’s what most of them are. Now the newer ThinkPads like a T61 or the X300, I think those are available in 2, 6 and maybe 8 bit cache is what you’re pretty big. So if you have over 512K combined cores or together, that’s fine, now that’s going to clockspeed. Clockspeed is the speed in your processor in MHz or GHz or THz but I don’t really think that’s around and popular yet.
My clockspeed as I recently said is 2 GHz on each core and a GHz refers to a billion of events per second. So I have 2 billion of events per second on each core, two times two is four, so I can do about 4 billion events per second.
Now, my ThinkPad have two cores at 2 GHz and it’ll do the same thing for each rated at 4.7 on the Vista Experience Index. And that they have 3 GHz in that computer, but anyway just to let you know, so I have 4 GHz on my Pavilion. But if you have over about 1 GHz per core you’re fine. Now if you got a solo-core and you’re trying to run Vista then I would say you’re going to want about 1.7 GHz minimum. Now I know windows say 900 MHz which are 1024 MHz in a GHz, correct me if I’m wrong, please and I appreciate you on that.
But you don’t want to run windows at 900 MHz. I mean you can see my processor is on 47%, 62%, 63%, 56% but that’s because I’m recording what’s on the screen right now and I supposed it’s working fairly hard like my ThinkPads is over here on to the right on 0%, that’s my processor.
Well, then my HP Compaq NC8230, it’s a couple of years old, it’s Pentium 4M I believe, the solo-core of 1.86 GHz and for later I see the difference between that Pavilion and ThinkPad and the NC8230, my processor is good. Let’s try to the 3.8 of the NC8230. So it’s definitely a dual-core, I would say with Vista and you at least want about 1.6 or 1.7 GHz per core again with the solo-core I’d say you’re going to want 1.7 at least and you can run it unless but it’s going to be awful, I’m trying to open Firefox and uploading to YouTube as I am in a moment of my other video, that’s my second today.
So hopefully that will help you out. Vista has a restore guide, it’s going to use more around then processor but it could be worst. So look at the positive, right. Thanks for watching.
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