Processor speed

[Nathan England]

>
> I have no idea what kind of system you're running, but in my
> experience the best way to enhance response time is to drop in a
> faster (rotationally) disk.  The 5-10ms you save accessing a new file
> makes a noticeable difference.

I would agree. The bottle kneck of todays pc is no longer ram or processor, 
but hard drives. Even fast hard drives are really slow. Find a hard drive 
with a large buffer and a higher rotational speed, like 7200 min. And if your 
system supports it, make sure you are using an 80 pin cable, not the old 40 
pin cables. I'm still seeing brand new systems coming with the old 40 pins on 
hdd.

Depending on the age of your system, if you can over clock it, it has always 
been faster to actually under clock the processor a bit, but speed up the 
bus. 

Example:

A Pentium 3 1.0 ghz running on a 100mhz system bus will not be as fast as the 
same processor clocked at 933 but running at 133 mhz bus, or even 112 bus.
But be careful, your video card is usually the first to choke on an over 
clocked bus, so if you experience problems, start your troubleshooting there.

nathan