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OC'd HomeBuild vs Dell E8400 or Q6600: How Much Faster Will Biz Apps & Adobe Run?
Comparing a Dell E8400 or Q6600 with a homebuilt computer with the same cpu and mildly OC'd, how much faster will the real world results be for the OC'd system to run the following applications?
Business applications: MS Office 2003, Quickbooks, Quicken, Excell,
Database: Access, PsQ, Poker Tracker (large database)
PhotoEditing: Lightroom, Photoshop
Other: Web Browsing, video and movie encoding
No Games.
As you might be able to tell, I'm not interested in pushing the limits of performance. My priority is a rock solid stable system that I don't have to mess with. I'm interested in working with my applications, not working on my computer (hardware, drivers, bios etc.)
If I built I computer, I would want to be able to build it and then forget it. I'm not interested in tweaking it, testing it and/or troubleshooting it once it's built. In fact, if I had to, it would take me away from the work I really want to do and annoy the hell out of me.
On the other hand, I would like a computer that could run appreciable faster than a stock manufactures build. So how much faster would a homebuilt be? Not benchmarking, but running real world apps, especially while intensive multitasking (say running a backup + large database + multiple internet windows and/or photoedit and/or video encode.)
Comparing a Dell E8400 or Q6600 with a homebuilt computer with the same cpu and mildly OC'd, how much faster will the real world results be for the OC'd system to run the following applications?
Business applications: MS Office 2003, Quickbooks, Quicken, Excell,
Database: Access, PsQ, Poker Tracker (large database)
PhotoEditing: Lightroom, Photoshop
Other: Web Browsing, video and movie encoding
No Games.
As you might be able to tell, I'm not interested in pushing the limits of performance. My priority is a rock solid stable system that I don't have to mess with. I'm interested in working with my applications, not working on my computer (hardware, drivers, bios etc.)
If I built I computer, I would want to be able to build it and then forget it. I'm not interested in tweaking it, testing it and/or troubleshooting it once it's built. In fact, if I had to, it would take me away from the work I really want to do and annoy the hell out of me.
On the other hand, I would like a computer that could run appreciable faster than a stock manufactures build. So how much faster would a homebuilt be? Not benchmarking, but running real world apps, especially while intensive multitasking (say running a backup + large database + multiple internet windows and/or photoedit and/or video encode.)
