canalilha
Jul 4 2008, 02:11 AM
| | what is the fastest computer that you have seen?
where?
when?
you computer is fast for you?
i have seen the fastest computer in my all life in school.. last year.
i want to buy a similar.. but it's still expensive =/
and you? |
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xboxrulz
Jul 4 2008, 04:48 AM
What was the specifications of the fastest computer at your school? The fastest I've used was a Mac Pro with an Octo-Core. Note: It's not my computer. My desktop is only a dual-core. xboxrulz
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LegallyHigh
Jul 6 2008, 05:18 AM
I'm not sure where I have seen the fastest computer at. Probably at Best Buy or Comp USA (one of the really expensive computers on display). But the computer I'm using is fast enough for me right now.
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Quatrux
Jul 6 2008, 06:33 AM
The fastest computer I've seen was at my friends house, he bought last year everything what was the best and thought he will have an ultimate computer, but as he said to me later, he just wasted a lot of money, because buying a bit cheaper things, games could run in a similar speed, but still it was really fast comparing to my current computer.. 
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xboxrulz
Jul 6 2008, 06:25 PM
How much did he spend? If he bought everything that was the best and available to consumers, it would've cost him $16,000. xboxrulz
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Quatrux
Jul 6 2008, 07:59 PM
Well he wasn't buying in USA and it isn't dollars here, so I don't know exactly how much is a dollar now and by saying best I didn't really mean the best of the best and the only one best best best, but with lots of stuff, I just have asked him and he says ~8500 LT so that's maybe ~4000$ but thats still much of money, because for 1000$ I could get quite a really good computer Today 
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Jeigh
Jul 7 2008, 02:42 PM
I assume the fastest I've used would either be the super computer on my campus or, if it counts, a beowulf cluster we created at one of my old jobs. I really can't remember the speed but you can imagine it was more powerful than anything you'd buy in a retail store lol. The cluster was 10 computers each running with 4 gigs of ram and a dual core 2.4 ghz processor. We only really used it for one application we had developed but the performance was ridiculously impressive. Probably the fastest retail system I've used wouldn't be that impressive really. Maybe a quad core 2.4 with a couple gigs of ram, average video card. Snappy but nothing amazing.
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docduke
Jul 7 2008, 06:31 PM
Which is the "fastest computer" needs to by qualified by "when." I was physically in the room with several each of the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer and the Cray-1. Each of these was sold at a price in the range of $6-8 Million in 1976, which would be about $27 Million in 2007 dollars, according to the Inflation Calculator. One of the computers I have at my desk, which I bought for about $600, has a faster CPU, more RAM, and more hard disk than either of those computers. 
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xboxrulz
Jul 8 2008, 06:03 AM
Docduke has a point. When and what time? I think the topic starter was referring to contemporary computers and not the pre-ISA systems. However, $27 million dollars is quite impressive for a supercomputer back then. It costs just about one roller coaster xD. I wish I can have a computer with more than just dual core. It is in my plans, but I hate it when they cost more than my budget and it's not ridiculously more too. A quad core is just across that budget fence >.<". xboxrulz
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yordan
Jul 8 2008, 08:54 AM
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Jul 8 2008, 08:03 AM)  I wish I can have a computer with more than just dual core. Did you have a look at the cpu usage ? At which moment do you have full load of each cpu core ? I would like to know that because, if your cpu is not 100% used at the most critical times, doubling the cpu power will not enhance performances. If your computer spends it's cpu time in disk usage and waiting for the network or waiting for memory, two extra cpu's will change nothing, the extra cpu's will still wait for the disks. If your computer is waiting for disks, you have first to add disks. For instance, in this situation, switching from a two-disks system to a system with a single disk will give worse performances. If your computer is waiting for processor time, then you may add processors or switch to a computer with more processors.
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toby
Mar 15 2009, 11:34 AM
School servers which there's something like 10 application servers and 6 data servers working for tens of thousands of people running Office, Vmware, a lot of Macromedia and so on. Some people bring laptops in, 4 gig, 2.6 or so dual core (do they even do quad for laptops?), Vista and 7, really good graphics. To then only use Office and retro games.
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krissh18
Mar 15 2009, 07:20 AM
Currently i have a P 4 2.41 ghz with only 764mb of ram ...
I do most of the times multi tasking but my pc is really very slow for this purpose...
I wanna buy a new faster pc with intel quad core processor 4gb ram and 1 Tb harddrive and a nvidia graphic card ... But its gonna cost me too much ... waiting to own it
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tillmand
Sep 26 2008, 05:22 AM
Well i find large unix communitys have large systems " freeshell.org" massive ammount of computing power. and it all depends on they stoage setup
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Atomic0
Aug 19 2008, 08:47 AM
My computer itself cost around AUD1,900 while my 24-inch monitor cost AUD725 (minus 100 for a Samsung Promotional Rebate). Spending 4000 dollars on a computer is really not worth it, because the top hardware is not always needed and that hardware these days easily become out-of-date and superseded by newer hardware.
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Merovingian
Aug 18 2008, 05:51 PM
The fastest computer I used was an admins comp at Centrica (the oil company). He had a dual Samsung DH display.... and that's all I can say really! lol I wanted access to a Norwegian server but my current access rights wouldn't allow me so I got to use his computer. Apart from the amazing display, it was lightening fast.
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