On November 12, 2010 at 09:19, thecynic315 said...
Yes, more RAM and either A) old 3.0GHz P4 or 3) a Corei7, because it can dynamically overclock itself when only using a single core, has the potential to make compile times faster.
The slowest dual cores outperform single cores for almost every application. And an old P4 is going to have a slower front side bus, and is typically attached to a mother board with older, slower components. These bottlenecks will bring your overall system speed way down.
As others have said, add RAM and a fast drive. Multicore processors and anything over 3 GB of RAM are only useful with a 64bit OS, like XP x64 or Windows 7 x64.
And be careful with SSDs. They aren't all created equal. Some are actually slower than old fasioned HDDs.
