- Mar 23, 2015
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Thought I would share my experience with this upgrade.
System 1:
i5 8400
16 gigs ram single stick kingston(makes no diff single or dual channel)
Asrock z370m pro4 board
no graphics card
80 gig 8 years old HDD 7200rpm
System 2:
Pentium B950 Laptop (2010 model)
6 Gigs or Ram (2 native, 4 added)
SSD
System 1 is about 10-20% faster in for most stuff, 4 times faster for compression. Could open 100 tabs, Illustrator, Photoshop, IE, and Xampp at the same time, never went over 8 gigs or RAM...all works fine, this would crash the system 2 at about the same with 50 tabs or so.
Conclusion:
A lot of hype and wasted money for nothing...Seems a beater with an SSD can compete with near top of the line CPU with tons of ram. 8 gigs or Ram is plenty, 100 tabs barely goes over 8. Could only push it to 9 or so with trying almost everything open!
This is all for productivity however no gaming. Next I'll put the SSD on system 1 and see what happens, but for others thinking of upgrading? Just put an SSD, seems to do it almost all for $600 cheaper!
System 1:
i5 8400
16 gigs ram single stick kingston(makes no diff single or dual channel)
Asrock z370m pro4 board
no graphics card
80 gig 8 years old HDD 7200rpm
System 2:
Pentium B950 Laptop (2010 model)
6 Gigs or Ram (2 native, 4 added)
SSD
System 1 is about 10-20% faster in for most stuff, 4 times faster for compression. Could open 100 tabs, Illustrator, Photoshop, IE, and Xampp at the same time, never went over 8 gigs or RAM...all works fine, this would crash the system 2 at about the same with 50 tabs or so.
Conclusion:
A lot of hype and wasted money for nothing...Seems a beater with an SSD can compete with near top of the line CPU with tons of ram. 8 gigs or Ram is plenty, 100 tabs barely goes over 8. Could only push it to 9 or so with trying almost everything open!
This is all for productivity however no gaming. Next I'll put the SSD on system 1 and see what happens, but for others thinking of upgrading? Just put an SSD, seems to do it almost all for $600 cheaper!
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