Hi user, my laptop with AMD A12 just made hist last breath, and I'm dead broke.
I can get a E8500+4Gb RAM configuration for like $80, will it be enough for web?
Hi user, my laptop with AMD A12 just made hist last breath, and I'm dead broke
Wyatt Perez
Ryder Nelson
Yes. High resolution video streaming might be hit or miss depending on your choice of browser though.
Ayden Cooper
What about Phenom X4 975? Is it better or worse?
Jaxson Sullivan
X4 975 is better in every possible way than an E8500. cpu.userbenchmark.com
Samuel Price
Nathaniel Hernandez
>will it be enough for web?
10 year old laptop here. It should be okay.
protip: addons like umatrix/noscript are your friend here, you can make a lot of websites run normally if you disable dumb hindu hipster bullshit scripts that do absolute fuck-shit.
Cameron Ross
E8200+4GB RAM here, it's plenty for any web stuff, and even full HD videos.
Bentley Bennett
One thing that doesn't work very well is 720p youtube @60fps. Downloaded runs just fine, but from the web browser not really
Jeremiah Jackson
Well, I don't watch youtube in fullscreen anyway, so 480p is enough for me.
Thanks.
Ryder Allen
I'm sure you could probably pick up an older chromebook on ebay or perhaps a newer one around $100.
Sure it may even be less powerful but one would expect C2D's to start crapping out a lot soon (more so motherboards / power supplies) than the actual processors.
Elijah Kelly
At this point you should just get a Bulldozer.
Ryder Davis
If only I could. I live in Russia, so buying it on ebay would cost me +$100.
Jace Edwards
youtube.com
You're going to have issues with multimedia playing/streaming at HD resolutions and the modern web is also going to cause some issues. Everything else should be fine, however.
Jose Martinez
If you want a performance comparison with whatever you're buying the CPU model I'm talking about is Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz.
2G of memory and (unusable at this point) ati video card.
So I'm fairly sure anything you get for your 80 bucks will be considerably better.
It's an aging system and I plan to replace it within the next few months with something like a T420 because in general the device is in abysmal state. Gets me over 2 hours of battery life if used for text though.
Modern web really got slow and bloated, so sad.
Gavin Garcia
>those prices
lol, just get a i7 920 instead
Adam Morales
>Russia
That CPU will not run CS:GO well
Lincoln Rogers
Well, good for me, the only game I play sometimes is quake
Easton Edwards
>What about Phenom X4 975? Is it better or worse?
Get this instead of the E8500 or Chromebook or whatever.
An X4 975 will run 1080p60fps video and play games. Will browse web great.
Used an Phenom X4 955 + r9 270 2GB + 8GB RAM until last year as a gaming computer
Nolan Gray
Enough for almost everything Tbh
Ryan James
>Phenom
Housefire that performs worse than bulldozer
Matthew Rodriguez
>slave
Jayden Thompson
What?
Brayden Ramirez
Interestingly enough the E8500 when moderately OC'd does fairly well even today.
You'll fall behind on instructions and cores though.
You'll manage to find one for like $10 instead of $80 though if you look.
James Perry
yup, i use my E8400 + 4gb of ram to watch 1080p 10-bit HEVC files without any issue.
Jacob James
Used Optiplexes with I5 2400 are like 50$ on e-bay
Max comfy too.