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Re: [amibroker] Pentium 4 2.66 GHz vs. AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz, question about speed



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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:40:10 -0000, Edward wrote:

> The Toshiba [notebook with a 2.66GHz processor and 256 MB DDR RAM] 
> is slower than slow when I load Amibroker and do  some scans. The 
> desktop [AMD Athlon 1800+, 512 MB RAM] seems to work fine.

Read the manual, you may have a two step processor. If you boot off
the battery, you may be running at a slower speed, unless configured
in the BIOS.
 
> My question: if I add 512 MB to the notebook would that do any good. 
> Could there be another problem? Seems to me 256 MB should be enough.

Yes it will definitely help, but you may need to do some tweaking. You
may need to also defragment the disk.

-= Chris ß =-
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