Is it time to buy a new general purpose PC but don’t have enough cash to configure a mean machine? Help is at hand. Just follow a very simple tip which can fit in a fast performing laptop or desktop in your budget.
The tip is very simple: Buy a processor with the slowest available clock speed in the latest family of processors and spend some of these savings into more RAM.
Confused? Lets simplify it.
Currently the latest family of processors from the Intel stable is Intel Core 2 Duo. There are processors of varying clock speeds within Intel Core 2 Duo. Just buy the slowest clock speed processor within Intel Core 2 Duo range of processors.
The logic behind this is very simple. The latest processors available in the market are simply an overkill for the functions most used by an average home or business user. If you are going to use your machine for web surfing, email, office applications like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and for some casual gaming and watching movies then you don’t need the latest available processors with the highest clock speeds. Dual core processors with slower clock speeds will do the job just fine. And when we mean slow, we are still talking about dual core processors adding up to 3.0 Ghz !!!
The money you save in buying a slightly slower processor will be significant. Send some of it in buying some extra memory. More the RAM, faster the performance.
Its a proved and well known fact that the performance of a PC is much greater on a Slower Processor plus More RAM combination than on a Faster Processor plus Less RAM combination.
So just follow this simple tip and get yourself the best out of your new budget computer.
