[PLUG] Which CPU

Ken Eshelby eshelbyk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 16:28:25 UTC 2018


I suspect the i5 and especially the SSD will be a solid upgrade.

If you haven't, getting a handle on what is loading the processor is
worthwhile. If you are using Windows (oh the irony on this list) they tend
to load up over time and some judicious use of process explorer and
msconfig goes a long ways.

I run inert desktop wallpaper overlays to show cpu/memory over time and
topX apps by cpu and memory to keep an eye on what's normal. Conky on linux
(https://github.com/xplorn/conky), and rainmeter with a jumble of skins
approximates this on Windows.


On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 3:15 AM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 8G of memory, it normally runs anywhere from 2-6G free. But I see a
> lot
> of things cause the processor load to hit the roof and set there for a
> while, that
> is why I am looking for something faster. But at times it will go down to
> less than
> 1G available (when I have a lot of tabs open on the web browser, or I am
> running
> a VM)
>
>
>

-- 
Ken



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