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Answer» Hi. I don't know if this is the right place in the forums to ask it, but i was wondering how i COULD improve the performance of my Celeron Processor that works on my laptop.
It's just that when i try some simulators e.g MSTS (Microsoft Train Simulator), Railworks (Train Simulator), UK Truck Simulator, they seem to be very very jumpy in places and uk truck is the worst of them all.
When i downloaded a program called fraps, it says that uk truck simulator was only 3-5 FPS. In MSTS it was about 30 FPS and Railworks i don't know about but i am guessing it is about 10-15 FPS.
Here is information about my computer:
-Graphics Driver: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile (Going to get updated to V8)
-Hard Disk Memory: 2 GB
-Hard Disk Space: 156 GB
-Processor: Intel(R) Celeron Processor
-Reboots(Whole computer restarts): 3-6 Times
-Processor SPEED: 1.66 GHz
any help will be apreciated.
Mat
Welcome to the forums!
Unfortunately, you have a laptop, which has a slower, old-ish mobile processor, as well as integrated graphics. Together, they won't be able to play any sort of modern games, I'm sorry to say there really is nothing you can do about it though other than to basically buy a new PC (which is not advice I give often).It's OK:
I was actually thinking of buying a new PC but unfortunately i don't have enough money for one yet. but i will soon...hopefully
I heard about the i7 processors and they look so cool.
BUT , i heard that you can buy new processors by buying a CD? i don't know if that's true but i will double check that. mabye i just saw the box cover that and thought 'oh ok, you can buy processors by buying cd's of them'.
But thanks anyway
Matnope. they are definetly not on cd. i don't know why i thought that the new processor can be installed by a cd. if so, that would be very wierd.
also, do you already get the i7 processor with windows 7? There is an old "joke" from IRC that goes something like this:
Code: [Select]<PersonA> My computer says I need more RAM.
<PersonB> You might try getting more RAM.
<PersonA> Can I download more RAM into my computer?
Basically, the "joke" stems from the common confusion for many people between software and hardware.
hardware is something you can physically touch or see. for example- when you think "processor" or CPU, or hard disk, those are physical objects.
Software is everything else (aside from firmware, which I'll touch on in a moment I suppose). For example, if you think "microsoft word" the closest you can come to a "physical" representation would be the product box and maybe the install disk. sure, the install disk is actually hardware, but it's only use is to store software. The software, strictly speaking, is really a set of instructions- a recipe, if you will. you still need the "ingredients" (computer and peripherals) to follow the "recipe", and the recipe certainly doesn't come with those!
yet another way to think about it is to use the analogy of ourselves. When most of us read a book, we use our imaginations to create the scenes in our head to try to understand the concepts involved, the characters, etc. In that sense, you can say it's a "simulation" being performed by our imagination at the direction of the story itself. Obviously, the text on the page only provides input. In this sense, our mind is essentially the "hardware" and the book is the software that we are "running".
Now, all that in mind- asking:
Quote also, do you already get the i7 processor with windows 7?
Is sort of like asking "do you already get imagination with a new book"?
well, sort of. obviously you can't replace your mind but you can replace a processor, and most of these analogies are both contrived and even wrong, but you should understand my point.
the i7 processor is a processor created by Intel. who knows why it chose the name i7, the i could evidently mean intel, or it could mean inebriated, who knows. why they chose 7 is also a mystery, ESPECIALLY since it's like the 10th generation x86/x64 processor.
Now, while, it would be physically possible for a company to include a processor with software, consider first thatthe i7 is a cheap processor. prices range from 250$ to over a thousand.
Now, even the Ultimate edition of windows 7, at full retail price, costs 319.99... so if MS included the i7 processor with it, they would be spending over 3/4's of the product's price simply to get the processor from intel. That seems a tad silly, really it would mean that windows 7 is more like a repackaged i7.
More to the point- the "LOWER" editions are then the cost of an i7, even taking into account bulk discounts, there is absolutely no way that Microsoft could eve include a i7 processor economically with Windows.
Remember- it's a physical device. Either you have it, or you don't- you can't simply install a piece of software or download some hack to transform your processor into something that didn't exist when it was created. This is like expecting to be able to have your window roller-upper at a specific location on an old Edsel let's it use Diesel- simply silly!
I hope this helps clarify the difference.
oh- I should note: you do need an i7 to run windows 7. i7 is just the name of the processor, and it's completely disparate from Microsoft's name selection.
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