is a 4 giga byte computer fast?
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If you just bought it, than I suppose that it's 4GB of RAM, so if that's the case than yes, it will make it run fast... because it will rely less on the hard drive to be accessing the data... but a PC depends on several components. Basically, the most performance related components are the CPU and the RAM (the video card just in case you play new games).
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115,200 bits per second
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it depends on the motheroard the you are using.\n\nand in the world maximum mem, i dont know, i guess 4 Gigs
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Not neccessarily. If you have in your bios settings for your pc to search in cdrom, floppy, network & then the harddrive for the operating system it will take longer, as does if you have the standard bios check running first. Once your OS is loaded if you have tons of junk running on start up it can take forever for your pc to load. No idea what OS you have - run>msconfig to see what is running on start up. You can download msconfig on google if you have XP. Hijack this is also good to check for things that should not be loading. While your at it download spybot search & destroy and adaware to check for junk. They will also clean your pc of cookies that phone home and slow your pc on the internet. Download Cleanup! & that will clean everything on your pc freeing up memory & anything the previous programs might have left.\n\nLast but not least, once your pc is running clean & lean of junk sucking power and using your connection for it's own nefarious means and slowing you down. Sometimes it's just the website. They might have tons of junk running that slows load time. They might not have the fastest servers. They might not be able to handle x amount of concurrent visitors (think rush hour on expressway all getting off at one exit). If you can load one site quickly, and another is a constant slow one... it's not you.\n\n512 will only make your pc be able to load things into memory faster which would include your browser (think big pic's trying to load), but does not affect sites you are trying to visit as long as they are moving along on their side (think of it like someone is handing you plates, 256ram you can handle so many plates, at 512ram you can handle more  plates that are heavier... but if the guy handing them to you is still slow..... your being faster doesn't do much good) The DSL will do the biggest bang on speed. Cleaning your pc of temp internet files & cookies will help your speed since they won't be clogging your DSL with phoneing home.\n\nSo to sum it up... clean your pc & get the 512 upgrade. You will notice a performance boost from both. If you really want to get faster dump IE & just use Firefox for browseing. Your DSL might want you to log on with IE, but you can still open up browser pages with Firefox. Firefox runs faster because it is not bogged down with all kinds of stuff you don't need. You can pick your options from it's extensions (faster fox, no script, customize google are few good ones to use) it's also less susceptible to holes and problems like IE is.\n\nps. Just saw your note - 2ghz celeron is fast enough - if you are just surfing, emailing & doing basic stuff on your pc its fine. If you are into games or other performance intensive uses then you might want a faster processor. Though if you are surfing & maybe bookkeeping or writing reports (or whatever) keeping your pc clean & the 512 will help the most. I'd also recommend your looking up "blackviper" on google (some sites still post the info) he had an excellent tutorial on what MS has running in the background on your pc by default, what it is and the safety of shutting it down. Stopping unneeded programs this way, msconfig and other tools does lot's for performance. You can have the fastest car, but if you are running the air, lights on & a generator out of the cigarette lighter, your gonna take a performance hit. & Check out this link for better info on keeping your pc clean. \n\nIt's alot of info, but once you try it - you'll see it's not difficult at all.
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Of course you'll se the difference! Not mainly in speed but mostly regarding the entire ysstem stability.. The only problem is that at this time many applications are still written in 32-bit and eventualy don't support 64-bit applications. It's the only disadvantage, and I could say minor because very soon 64 bit will be the new standard for cpu processing!
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I rebuild computers regularly and here's what you cando.\n\nIncrease your MEM to AT LEAST 256K and you will get by "okay".  Increase it to 512 and you will be fine using heavy programs.\n\n40 gb is just fine- ignore what others are saying.  You can install office, adobe, 2-3 MAJOR games and still have 15 gigs left! \n\nOf course if you want video editing, etc- you will need a bigger drive. BUT if you don't then 40 gig is enough for a casual user.\n\nGood luck.
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1.8 is pretty fast.  That's about a 3.0 on an Intel chip.  Intel chips inflate their frequencies quite a bit.  However, a 1.8 centrino for example will perform like a 4.0 pentium if not better.
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yes! it will definitely run faster. you should get a minimum of 512 MB for you computer which is like the minimum reccomended RAM size for just about everything. if you plan on playing computer games or something high tech like that you should probably try and get at least 1 GB of RAM. you will definitely notice the different. good luck. definitely get at least the 512 MB though.
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Well, there are three perspectives to your question, which are as follows :\n\n(1)A super computer\n(2)A desktop computer\n(3)Anything in a general sense that can compute.\n\nFor the third perspective, The fastest computer in the world is much faster than the desktop in front of you, and it is sitting right on top of your shoulders! The human brain is an amazing computing device and the fastest processor available right now. \n\nIn supercomputers, the BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution stationed at DOE/NNSA/LLNL at Livermore in California is ruling the world. It has, hold on your breath, 131072 processors,each processor with an individual performance of 2.8 GigaFlops (PowerPC 440 700 MHz). It has a main memory of 32768 GB and is 3 times more powerful in processing than its immediate competitor (Also by IBM). Surprisingly, its still in expansion phase. Blue Gene is an IBM Research project dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing: in computer architecture, in the software required to program and control massively parallel systems, and in the use of computation to advance our understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding.\n\nAs for the fastest desktop configuration, it keeps changing every now and then. An interesting fact to note, Intel had come up with 4GHz chip, but could not commercialize it because of the excessive heating which could damage the chip. Hope to see such a chip soon. As on 6th January 2006, Xi MTower 64 AGE-SLI is considered to be the fastest desktop Computer. Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU, 2GB of DDR400 SDRAM, a single EVGA E-GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card, and two 300GB hard drives striped in a RAID 0 array, The $3897 gaming and graphics system justifies its high price with lots of speed and excellent expandability. You can read a review on it the given sources.
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333mhgz is the problem get that upto 1999 then it will be more fast and add 1 or 2gb of ram 256 mb is low
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SATA here and a fairly fast motherboard with 2GB Ram, still takes a lot loner than 10 seconds before it is "ready to work".\n\nIf it was with Linux or some other less bloated software than windows then yes, it may very well be practical.
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In minicomputer O/S the no of procceses in one second is far much lower than that of a main frame. mainframes can operate in terms of tera bytes while minicomputers operate in terms of up to gigabits.\n\nits like comparing win vista and win 3.0 you can't run win 3.0 on a pentium 4 3.1 ghz it will be degrading your pc!
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Okay...  The difference between a 3.0 and a 2.8 is negligible.  However, if the 3.0 were tapped with HT, or Hyperthreading, the difference would be enormous.  Hyperthreading virtually turns one processor into two.  It will significantly increase the PC performance when it comes to multi-tasking.  Look for it.\nFSB... or Front Side Bus...  Imagine a funnel.  The CPU speed, like 3 GHz, would be the top of the funnel.  The FSB would be the bottom.  No matter how big the top is, the bottom can only allow so much out at one time.  There are FSB's up to 2000 now.\nMemory... the speed is what you're looking at.  This means that the memory clock is set at 533 MHz/sec.  The higher the speed, obviously, the faster information can be retrieved from memory.  The DIMMs are the number of slots availible.  If you have 2 DIMMs, then you have 2 slots for memory.  A maximum of 2 GHz of memory is availible.  At 4 DIMMs, your maximum is 4 GHz.  The more memory, the faster you can get programs to load, or the less lag you'd see in high res games.\nHard Drive...  As a hard drive reads its disks, it writes information to the cache.  The larger the cache, the more information you can access before the HDD has to read more.  So, the higher the Cache, the better.  As far as RPMs, this is the speed at which the disks spin, and logically, the higher the RPM, the faster the HDD can access new information.\nYour options are all dependant on your budget.  You will get great performance with the 2.8, with 512 Megs of memory, with a 7200 RPM hdd with an 8MB cache.  But, the more you can afford to put in it, the longer it will take before you are way behind tomorrow's technologies.\nIf you have further questions, feel free to email me at this yahoo screen name.  I build and repair PCs for a living.
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For education purpose, go for P4 Computer  with 512 or 1 GB Ram so that it can work fast and with minimum of 80 GB hard disk
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Pentium 4 is a much more sophisticated and modern system than a Celeron and according to your specs, which seem wrong, I would hazard a guess of 1.8Ghz though that could be because it is being overclocked from 1.5Ghz
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1 MB, 2 MB, 8 MB etc.. speeds are not big deal for now since most applications on the internet ran smoothly even with speeds less than 1 MB.. Unless if .you are browsing on a graphic/flash-heavily  intensive site. but that's just less than .01% of all sites in the internet.. Also if you are downloading large files downlink speed is important.. If you are uploading files uplink speed is important.. but you have to check your provider on these..  But for me this is not too important considering with the competition most providers provide faster speeds.\n\nWith that said, what I can suggest is you choose a provider that has a good tracking record with 99.99% uptime, with consistent speed and above all 24 hour technical PHONE support..\n\nThere are other criteria but for me those above are my priority\n\nGoodluck!
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The 4.7 GB value is the amount of space in binary.\n\nIn decimal, it comes out to 4.38 GB, which is what the computer is displaying.\n\n\n1 GB equals 1073741824 bytes.