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PostPosted: 17:47 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Computer speed Reply with quote

Chaps, can you easily up the speed of a computer chip? the GHz?

My daughters old laptop runs at 1.6 and a programme she wants to run won't load because it needs 2.2 to run so can I up the speed without frying it and if I can, how do you do it? Mr. Green

Many thanks from White furry computer numpty.
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PostPosted: 19:07 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Negative sir.
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddy. wrote:
Negative sir.


Short, sweet and to the point Paddy. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a laptop, it runs as fast as its cooling design allows it. These days internet is full of used good laptops for next to nothing. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 21:33 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm surprised you get a number out of an application because it depends so much on various things... But yeah you can overclock chips, but by and large it tends to make them less stable and more prone to overheating. I've never had much success myself.

Probably a new laptop time if I'm honest, although I'm surprised that you can't get *something* out of the application even if it runs slowly.
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 25 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Processor speed shouldn't stop an application or game running but it probably indicates that software will run like a pig.

All you can really do for a laptop is add more memory and/or get a faster flash/hard drive. Both will speed up loading and running stuff but won't up the frame rates in games.
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PostPosted: 01:02 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

What laptop?
It might be possible if the mobo supports faster cpu's.
If the lappy was the entry level/budget version for instance, it might have a
single core 1.6Ghz cpu on a board that can upgraded to take a better one.
Fitting the max ram might help as would upgrading the video ( if possible)
Of course all this entails researching the specs and upgrade options so it might be easier/cheaper/quicker to buy a better lappy
and avoid all that computery bollox.
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PostPosted: 11:53 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

At 1.6 it might be an atom which is definitely not replaceable.
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PostPosted: 13:04 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not a problem thanks, she's using mine now.

Hers is an old HP that runs windows 8 Sick . She just wanted to run her Sage accounting software on it but it wasn't having any of it.

It isn't worth spending a penny on but I thought if it was an easy thing to do we might as well try upping the speed.

Anyway, thanks all. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have an old Dell E5520 that I upgraded the cpu on
Pentium M to Core2Duo if I member it right as well as adding more memory
It was ages ago and IIRC, some models had upgradeable video card options
'Old' is the thing though
Modern lappys may all be one board, 'what you get is what you see' things
like phones
and it does take some faffing about which most folk wont be interested in
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddy is wrong, it can be done. But Paddy is right because, it probably can't be done in your case. Laughing

I upgraded by Missus laptop several years ago from an i3 to an i7 and it cost about £20 because it was old. It had a socketed processor, most laptops do not.

Unless you have a specialist laptop with a mobo and an 'unlocked processor' capable of being overclocked you can boost what you have.

I don't think I have ever seen a overclockable laptop, I'm sure someone has made one. But since you can't upgrade cooling it would be pointless. That said I can overclock the GPU in my laptop and have managed a 10% increase stabley.
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PostPosted: 23:28 - 26 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tidying up lots of the unnecessary shit that you can almost guarantee will also be installed on the craptop and it will stand a much better chance at running the software successfully.

Depending on just how much unnecessary shit the craptop has accumulated over the years, formatting the computer and reinstalled Windows could well be less hassle and quicker than sifting through everything figuring out what can be uninstalled.
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PostPosted: 10:20 - 27 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

More to the point, what the hell is an accounts system doing with all that processing power?

Lazy fucking coding, that's what. Accounts are just maths and not even hard maths (in computer terms).

My Amstrad DD1640 (so that's 1640K of RAM, 8MHz processor and the software on one of two 5.5 flopy discs) used to run sage accounts and I bet that, other than a glossy GUI, it fundamentally did everything a modern version would do.
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 27 Jun 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sage... fucking piece of shit!

The DOS version was great. They never ever perfected the Windows version... like with 25 years to get it right Sad

We've moved over to Xero (which has an entirely different set of issues.)
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PostPosted: 10:21 - 01 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Accounts are just maths and not even hard maths (in computer terms).

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*splutters indignantly *
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PostPosted: 11:35 - 01 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:

My Amstrad DD1640 (so that's 1640K of RAM, 8MHz processor and the software on one of two 5.5 flopy discs)


Pretty sure it was only 640K. Which was plenty back in the day. (I had a DD1512)
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 01 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
...and the software on one of two 5.5 flopy discs


Huh... thought they'd be 3", 3.5" or 5.25" (5¼" in old money.)
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 01 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
My Amstrad DD1640


I think it's actually this:https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2853/Amstrad-PC1640-DD/
Amstrad PC1640
Intel i8086 @ 8 MHz
640kB RAM
2x 2.25" 720kB floppy drive
14" EGA Monitor (PC-ECD)

Manufacturer: Amstrad
Date: 1986
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 02 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
More to the point, what the hell is an accounts system doing with all that processing power?

Lazy fucking coding, that's what. Accounts are just maths and not even hard maths (in computer terms).

My Amstrad DD1640 (so that's 1640K of RAM, 8MHz processor and the software on one of two 5.5 flopy discs) used to run sage accounts and I bet that, other than a glossy GUI, it fundamentally did everything a modern version would do.


While you are almost certainly right, but super optimised stuff is far or more of a pain in the arse when maintaining or changing things

I'm currently working to nomalise a 50 year old packed EBCDIC database full of julian dates and all manner of decades old bodges Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:02 - 02 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sage company motto:

"That'll be extra!"
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