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Different Processors with Excel...
Hi All..........
Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 |
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I've used Pentium P1 to P4 and various Celeron processors in XL and I
haven't really noticed much difference in performance or speed of calculations, even with array formulas which can be slow. I don't think XL requires that much processor power, I may be wrong, Regards, "CLR" wrote in message ... Hi All.......... Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 |
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CLR,
You'll start noticing performance differences in performance when you work with LARGE numbers of data and formulas. The performance gains of TYPICALLY sized workbooks aren't very noticeable from one generation CPU to the next, assuming RAM size is identicle. Although, my rule of thumb: the faster the clockspeed and the larger the RAM size, the more you can number crunch. Also, with multi-core processors, 64-bit chips, and incorporation of new RAM types (ie DDR2s), my mouth drools with anticipation....hehe. Ron "CLR" wrote: Hi All.......... Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 |
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Thanks for the comeback Alan...........I'm particularly interested that you
mentioned Celeron, as I am considering buying one to take to this one site where the Client does not provide decent equipment. A laptop is just too expensive, but I can get a dual-monitor 2GB Celeron machine fairly reasonable. I was just wondering if anyone has had bad (or hopefully good) experiences with one. Glad to hear yours was good. Thanks again, Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Alan" wrote in message ... I've used Pentium P1 to P4 and various Celeron processors in XL and I haven't really noticed much difference in performance or speed of calculations, even with array formulas which can be slow. I don't think XL requires that much processor power, I may be wrong, Regards, "CLR" wrote in message ... Hi All.......... Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 |
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I appreciate the input Ron, thanks........
Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Ron_D" wrote in message ... CLR, You'll start noticing performance differences in performance when you work with LARGE numbers of data and formulas. The performance gains of TYPICALLY sized workbooks aren't very noticeable from one generation CPU to the next, assuming RAM size is identicle. Although, my rule of thumb: the faster the clockspeed and the larger the RAM size, the more you can number crunch. Also, with multi-core processors, 64-bit chips, and incorporation of new RAM types (ie DDR2s), my mouth drools with anticipation....hehe. Ron "CLR" wrote: Hi All.......... Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 |
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CLR wrote:
Thanks for the comeback Alan...........I'm particularly interested that you mentioned Celeron, as I am considering buying one to take to this one site where the Client does not provide decent equipment. A laptop is just too expensive, but I can get a dual-monitor 2GB Celeron machine fairly reasonable. I was just wondering if anyone has had bad (or hopefully good) experiences with one. Glad to hear yours was good. My machine is a 3 year old Dell 1.7GHz Celeron with multiple monitors that I paid $299 for new. Works fine. I do have 768MB RAM, but otherwise it's a pretty basic PC. I've never been able to see any difference between it and a Pentium for "normal" software. I've read that the Pentium will be faster for some video games and video editing, but I've never had occasion to try either one. Good luck... Bill |
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Thank you kind Sir, I appreciate the info.........no "Game'r" here, just
planning on mostly Excel on two screens....... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from address)" wrote in message ... CLR wrote: Thanks for the comeback Alan...........I'm particularly interested that you mentioned Celeron, as I am considering buying one to take to this one site where the Client does not provide decent equipment. A laptop is just too expensive, but I can get a dual-monitor 2GB Celeron machine fairly reasonable. I was just wondering if anyone has had bad (or hopefully good) experiences with one. Glad to hear yours was good. My machine is a 3 year old Dell 1.7GHz Celeron with multiple monitors that I paid $299 for new. Works fine. I do have 768MB RAM, but otherwise it's a pretty basic PC. I've never been able to see any difference between it and a Pentium for "normal" software. I've read that the Pentium will be faster for some video games and video editing, but I've never had occasion to try either one. Good luck... Bill |
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CLR shared this with us in microsoft.public.excel.misc:
Thanks for the comeback Alan...........I'm particularly interested that you mentioned Celeron, as I am considering buying one to take to this one site where the Client does not provide decent equipment. A laptop is just too expensive, but I can get a dual-monitor 2GB Celeron machine fairly reasonable. I was just wondering if anyone has had bad (or hopefully good) experiences with one. Glad to hear yours was good. Thanks again, Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Alan" wrote in message ... I've used Pentium P1 to P4 and various Celeron processors in XL and I haven't really noticed much difference in performance or speed of calculations, even with array formulas which can be slow. I don't think XL requires that much processor power, I may be wrong, Regards, "CLR" wrote in message ... Hi All.......... Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the different processors today, (Celeron, Centrino, P4, AMD, etc etc), when being used with Excel. Particularly when using multi sessions of Excel with complex workbooks. TIA for any comments......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 I would be *really* interested in a 64 bit version of Excel that is truly 64 bit optimi(s|z)ed and takes advantages of the 64 bit features of an AMD64 or IA64 processor. Unfortunately I fear this would imply a major rewrite... -- Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.4.1 If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? |
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