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popowich
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 11:28 AM
How fast is your computer?

-Raymond
esnagel
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 04:32 PM
How do I know? What do I have to do to find out? Is it like right-click on my computer somewhere?
esnagel
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 04:34 PM
How do I know? What do I have to do to find out? Is it like right-click on my computer somewhere?

Found it:

Start > Right click on My Computer, go to Properties & it should be listed there. 3.06 GHz for me (with 1.96 GB of RAM... where'd that other .04 GB go?)
Raven
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 04:57 PM
Usually some type of memory takes it and hided it. :comp26:


Found it:

Start > Right click on My Computer, go to Properties & it should be listed there. 3.06 GHz for me (with 1.96 GB of RAM... where'd that other .04 GB go?)
Raven
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 05:00 PM
2.80 HGz

544 megs ram.

I need more memory
THERESA
Monday, January 28th, 2008, 01:53 PM
:comp26: Don't get me started. :censored1:


:hide: Beggars can't be choosy though I guess. :laughing6:
techguy
Saturday, March 1st, 2008, 07:28 PM
You may have an onboard video chip that reserves some of your system RAM for graphics processing.
Kaos
Saturday, March 1st, 2008, 07:59 PM
3.39Mghz here. Thanks esnagel for showing me how to figure it out.
popowich
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008, 12:56 PM
You may have an onboard video chip that reserves some of your system RAM for graphics processing.


I didn't realize they do that. Do they take a lot like 256MB or something? I had an extra card I stuck in one trying to get DirectX 9+ installed but it wouldn't take since that computer isn't genuine. I wonder if i would help with the overall computer speed though. :confused:

-Raymond
techguy
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008, 04:07 PM
I didn't realize they do that. Do they take a lot like 256MB or something? I had an extra card I stuck in one trying to get DirectX 9+ installed but it wouldn't take since that computer isn't genuine. I wonder if i would help with the overall computer speed though. :confused:

-Raymond
Yes. Most onboard video reserves either 128MB or 256MB of system RAM depending on the age of the system. This reserved memory can only be used by the video chip.

You should be able to disable the onboard video if you have a video card installed. This sounds like a good topic for a techtip! ;)
Raven
Monday, March 3rd, 2008, 01:54 AM
I agree. Time to give you your job back. :D


You should be able to disable the onboard video if you have a video card installed. This sounds like a good topic for a techtip! ;)
THERESA
Monday, March 3rd, 2008, 01:38 PM
I was looking for the "slower than a snail" option, I didn't see it. :D
Raven
Monday, March 3rd, 2008, 06:22 PM
I was looking for "piece of chit" but couldn't find it.

I was looking for the "slower than a snail" option, I didn't see it. :D
THERESA
Monday, March 3rd, 2008, 07:00 PM
I was looking for "piece of chit" but couldn't find it.


HAHAHAHA!!! :rofl:
yukon
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008, 01:51 PM
my home machine is an AMDx2 64bit 4800+, i think stock clock speed is around 2.5ghz with 2GB RAM, I have an older (asus branded) ATI x800 vid card that I think has another 128-256 on board