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    Main resource gobbling tasks?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Froskoy, Feb 3, 2009.

  1. Froskoy

    Froskoy Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    What are some of the tasks that use up the most system resources.

    I know that gaming, video editing, collecting scientific data and modelling (VR, 3d e.t.c.) all use up lots of resources. Would you put them in that order? What else uses up a lot of resources?

    Thanks very much,

    Froskoy.
     
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    i'd say a tie between modelling and video editing at the top, then gaming, and then "collecting scientific data" (not quite sure what you mean by this though).
     
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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Collecting scientific data is number 1 - if set to utilize the full power of the machine you won't be able to do ANY other tasks. This includes projects like SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence - http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) and protein folding - http://folding.stanford.edu/

    I believe there are many others as well.


    After that - Gaming, then 3d modeling, then video editing - though video editing will use more CPU than GPU, I think gaming will use more resources overall.
     
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