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"Tanel Kagan" <tanelkagan@(nospamatall).hotmail.com> wrote:

>Dear group,

>Processor:
>2.40GHz Intel Celeron, 8Kb primary memory cache, 128 kilobyte secondary
>memory cache

>But more important than pure speed I sometimes get
>system hangs when loading large files (some PDFs for example) and if the
>machine doesn't lock up completely it can take a few minutes to "catch up".

>Does anyone have any advice? Does my system have an obvious "bottleneck",

You have no cache L1 or L2 to speak of, That's why you never hear a
good thing about a Celeron CPU.

>Can anyone advise whether my motherboard would support a faster processor?
>Would a separate graphics card be worth it?

You need to increase your L2 Cache, a function of the CPU.

My processor P4 (HT) has
12K L1 Trace Cache
16K L1 Data Cache - you 8Kb
1MB L2 Cache - you 126kb


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