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Originally Posted by Vancouver_M5
I spent a lot of money on high end CPU's and GPU's in the quest of increasing my computer's speed. A new cpu that was 3 times more powerfull than my old one did little differnce, maybe 10% overall speed increase overall.
The new gpu was over 6 times faster and it did increase the whole pc speed by quite a lot in all aspects, especially gaming where i had 100+ frames. But all those fps didnt help me in computing speed overall.
I then added a extra 4gb of ram, bringing it up to 8gb of ram whoch increased the pc speed and operation by about 20%
All this stuff cost me hundreds of dollars with litlle effect to what i wanted to accomplish.
Next thing i got was a SSD , it was 40$ for a used 60gb OCZ, my boot time went from 4 mins to 11 seconds, the differnce that SSD did was astronomical, i increased the whole pc speed by at least 200%, so to sum things up .... Forget all the cpu,gpu and ram upgrades, grab yourself a SSD.
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SSD increases responsiveness, not its processing power.
A new CPU thats 3x more powerful then its old predecesser will be extremely noticeable, upgrading from an i7 970 to a 3960x is less then 30%, yet I noticed the speed increase almost imminently.
A new GPU will increase your frame rates for Windows aero as well as in game FPS for 2D/3D applications, this
will increase your computing speed by offloading the multitudes of videos/in game java/flash you have open.
8GB's of RAM will not increase your speed operations by 20%, it will free up "locked" space on your computer, allowing for more free flowing processing.
Last but not least, 4 minutes to 11 seconds is impossible, 11 seconds on a fully loaded OS is also impossible, unless you are using a RAID config, or a REVO drive.
SOURCE: I work with this shit day in, day out.
Theres a thing called balance, having a strong CPU and a weak GPU serves it purpose as a workstation/data server, a strong GPU with a weak CPU is just useless. The average joe's computer needs to have a well balanced processor - GPU, otherwise you are losing out on either one, you are using an AMD X4 + GTX670, you are already bottlenecking your graphics card immensely.
TL;DR OP is full of shit and should do his research.