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Can processor make up for slow broadband?

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  • 15-05-2014 6:32pm
    #1
    just do it
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    My broadband varies between 1-2.5MB download depending on the time of day. It's poor in the evening just when you'd like to steam a movie. I'm getting a new laptop at the moment so the question is, can a faster processor help to get over this? Any point getting greater than 4mb ram?


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    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    No, and No, re the broadband speeds. Get > 4GB if you have 64bit OS and run memory-intensive software


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    #3
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Looking at this http://shop.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g500/


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    Overheal
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    technically some process like to hype and market that they are better at handling internet packets and all that, but at the end of the day the biggest obstacle is the provided bandwidth.


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    Flaregon
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    Overheal wrote: »
    technically some process like to hype and market that they are better at handling internet packets and all that, but at the end of the day the biggest obstacle is the provided bandwidth.

    Depends how old his pc is......if he running a over from 2000, an upgrade my help a bit, with the point of taking in 1mb if it's pc only processes 2/3 of it?

    Process general won't help, but if your like 20 years old it may help.


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    Overheal
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    Well like AMD has SteadyStream in their CPU, which is basically meant to just give a higher queue priority to processing viddeo-streaming packets that come in from the ISP over say, download or other data packets. It doesn't make those packets arrive any faster, it just means that when they hit the system they're slightly less likely to be impeded by the system trying to process a packet for a background process. Probably negligible difference in performance however, in most use cases.


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    longhalloween
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Well like AMD has SteadyStream in their CPU, which is basically meant to just give a higher queue priority to processing viddeo-streaming packets that come in from the ISP over say, download or other data packets. It doesn't make those packets arrive any faster, it just means that when they hit the system they're slightly less likely to be impeded by the system trying to process a packet for a background process. Probably negligible difference in performance however, in most use cases.

    I'd say it makes as much of a difference as all this extra RAM I downloaded. :pac:


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    Overheal
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    longhalloween wrote: »
    I'd say it makes as much of a difference as all this extra RAM I downloaded. :pac:

    Pretty much. The actual difference would be measured in a handful of processor ticks at best I'm guessing, and only ever prove useful if something else was taking a while to process (eg. Uncompressing a zip folder)


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    beauf
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    I have a good connection, but on a older laptop with slow cpu and basic graphics it can't playback 1080 streams. Another laptop with a slightly fast cpu but with old but decent graphics has no problem with 1080.

    But if you have a bad connection it would make no difference.


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