How are school computers so fast with the specs they have?

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So, i was looking at the specs for my schools computers the other day and they have core 2 duo's, 4 gigs of ram, and a gtx 5 series that i dont remember the exact model of. My question is, how are they so damn fast? They compete with my personal quad core / 1070 pc and i just dont understand how. I'm not sure if my computer is running slow or if the school has tech wizards working for them, can anyone explain this to me?
 
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It could possibly be that the school computers are running on some sort of server. The specs of the PC you use at school could be just enough to run programs and stuff without having anything actually on that specific pc so it gets some or most of its resources from elsewhere to be able to run faster. Also i am currently using an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 in my most powerful PC build i have right now (kind of pitiful i know, im working on getting a more powerful pc) and its actually pretty decently fast for gaming and stuff
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How are they faster?

My guess is they don't have a lot of crap running. No music, chat, etc programs running. When I was in school the computers were just used for web browsing, writing papers, etc. You weren't allowed to play games or do other things. My guess is your PC is faster, but you aren't allowed to stress the school ones to see that.
 
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If it's a university then those tend to be right on the internet backbone which has been 100gigabit since 2010.

Also, Core 2 isn't slow--it uses the same cores as Nehalem except on a FSB, and the major architectural change in the last decade has mainly been Sandy Bridge doubled the width of those cores. Its weakness is memory bandwidth which is important for two specific workloads--games and archiving (compression).
 
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It could possibly be that the school computers are running on some sort of server. The specs of the PC you use at school could be just enough to run programs and stuff without having anything actually on that specific pc so it gets some or most of its resources from elsewhere to be able to run faster. Also i am currently using an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 in my most powerful PC build i have right now (kind of pitiful i know, im working on getting a more powerful pc) and its actually pretty decently fast for gaming and stuff
 
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