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Unread 03-29-2005, 12:06 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by pHaestus
Yea I noticed a bigger difference with 7200 rpm notebook hdds than I have from the CPU speed upgrades. The i/o subsystem is the big bottleneck on notebooks I think.
Disk and graphics kill them mainly. You have this powerful CPU and it can't do anything with the data it generates.
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