A6 3500

[andy572]

I'll follow the link later. Thank you, Bambooz.

[Attila the Bun]

Did you look further into unlocking? It's not something that I'd consider doing for those tasks and I know and have witnessed that feeling of a new system after such a long time for an extra core not to matter. I built a new system for myself a couple of years ago and moving from a single-core Athlon, it didn't matter that I didn't have the 'latest and greatest'. At stock, it felt snappy and did everything. As it still does! Building for other people, reliability would be my main consideration and I'd avoid tweaking for extra performance when it's only for simple tasks.

I couldn't find any further info on unlocking the core so decided that as the build was for someone else I would leave it well alone. I did do a small overclock (2.4ghz) and voltage reduction (can't remember) which I left in place as it ran perfectly stable all day.

That boot time suggests it's a nice system. Is it of the spec you listed earlier (4GB, 750GB drive etc.)? Have you tried it with Flash video at sites like YouTube or played, say, HD or post-processed video?

Yes I ran a few YouTube vids but unfortunately my home internet service is so pants it is difficult to get an accurate picture of it's capability. I've left it with my brother to try it out on his superduper 20gig (edit: 20gig bandwidth...am I mad...20meg) connection. If he has anything to report I'll post it here.

edit: Yes the spec is as stated in the previous post running Win7 Home Prem.

[andy572]

Thank you. I'll look forward to an update.