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Performance Office PCs ..

  • 15-06-2009 2:14pm
    #1
    xbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭


    what affects microsoft office (2003/2007) performance the most.

    CPU ( quad make a difference, FSB, MHZ?)
    RAM ( more than 2GB RAM ? )
    HD ( 10K disk worthwhile ?)

    TIA :)


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  • #2
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,539 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Microsoft Office Basic 2007

    Component / Requirement :
    • Computer and processor 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
    • Memory 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
    • Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
    • Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive
    • Display 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
    • Operating system Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system
    Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx#2


  • #3
    xbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭xbmc


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Microsoft Office Basic 2007

    Component / Requirement :
    • Computer and processor 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
    • Memory 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
    • Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
    • Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive
    • Display 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
    • Operating system Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system
    Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx#2

    Thanks for the minimum requirements.. if I ever need that.


  • #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    From blue's sheet I gather CPU affects its performance most. But it depends entirely on what you are doing in the application. Are you trying to spellcheck? Load up a bunch of templates? Work on enourmous documents?


  • #5
    xbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭xbmc


    Overheal wrote: »
    From blue's sheet I gather CPU affects its performance most. But it depends entirely on what you are doing in the application. Are you trying to spellcheck? Load up a bunch of templates? Work on enourmous documents?

    The users are working on big/mulitiple word docs as well as heavy outlook usage. Does word/outlook benefit from more than 2 cores on XP ? ie is a faster dual core better than a slower quad?

    Thanks


  • #6
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    xbmc wrote: »
    Thanks for the minimum requirements.. if I ever need that.

    No need to be a smart hole.

    Things I would invest in to boost performance (in this order, and depending on budget, but you mention 10K drives, so I'm guessing it's not that small):

    RAM
    SSD
    CPU

    I would prefer a fast dual core to a slow quad for office purposes.


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