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dway
03-21-2009, 09:36 AM
Hi,

I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade or how to upgrade my pc.

I have a BIG database, with 21k players with up to 100k hands on many of the regs. I think that this getting to the point where I should have a seperate Hard Drive dedicated to the database to speed it up.

Will I get any performance gain from having a quad core processor v's a relatively old Pentium D dual core ?

I suspect I will get most of the gain by just adding a 2nd HD ( a 10krpm sata 300 velociraptor which would halve the seek time )

The main reason for this is that when using the "v's player function I can be waiting minutes for a result, the processor is running at 40% but i'm still waiting.

thanks.