This time round though, my main motivation isn't for playing games (I didn't upgrade the graphic card).
It's mainly for the processing improvements.
To place things into perspective, my old CPU is a dual core with a 1.8Ghz clock speed.
The new ivy bridge i5 has double the number of core, and each core has double the clock speed of my previous CPU.
That's how far things have advanced.
Of course, the 6 year old CPU is a bottleneck even for my 2+ year old graphic card.
Still, it's really essential for my work.
Did some benchmarking before I dumped my old system, and I was able to improve the boot times from roughly 85 seconds to 30 seconds.
Processing speed for my analysis of 60K records went from about 5mins 35secs to 1min 35secs.
Overall it's a good investment...
...
Now all I need is a bigger monitor...
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ i5-3570K (4 Cores, 3.8Ghz)
- Mainboard
- ASUS P8Z77-V Pro
- Graphics Card
- Powercolor HD4870 1GB GDDR5
- Memory
- G.Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz DDR3 CL9 4GB x 2
- Storage Drive
- - Seagate 250GB (SATA 2)
- - Seagate 500GB (SATA 2)
- - Western Digital Caviar Black 64MB 1TB (SATA III)
- Crucial m4 SSD 256GB (SATA III) - Display
- Philips 220WS
- Audio
- -
- Optical Drive
- Sony DVD R/W -> HP dvd1270 24X SATA Writer
- Power Supply Unit
- FSP Aurum CM Modular 650W 80 Plus Gold
- Casing
- Coolermaster 690 II Advanced, Black & White Edition
- Operating System
- Windows 7 64-Bit Professional
- Speaker
- Logitech X-230
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wave
- Mouse
- Logitech M705
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