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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Yeah, but what speed is your CPU? Blossom was dealing with a <10 years old CPU, as I recall.
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That shouldn't matter.
My current CPU has a passmark score of about 9015, while my 10 year old Core2Duo laptop has a passmark score of 1580. These are synthetic benchmarks, measuring raw CPU power. The new CPU is 5.71x faster than the old one.
The chess engines take up +/- 90% of this power, so if I'd run a passmark bench alongside them, I'd expect a score of around 900 (the last 10%), which is only 57% of the 10 year old CPU. Even so, I can still use the computer.
That 10 year old Dell runs Windows 10 as well, by the way, and I don't have the range of problems Blossom is facing. I can only think of two things:
- That laptop uses many proprietary drivers that are not really fit for Windows 10 (which would mean they don't adhere to the driver standards that have been in place since the Vista days).
- The third party security software is fracking stuff up.
My laptops and desktops have been completely based around Intel cpu's, chips, and networking and nVidia and/or Intel for graphics (and the usual suspects for the other stuff, such as Synaptics for touchpads, Realtek for sound, and so on), and I haven't had problems for ages, except for the occasional driver bug I run into. To catch those, I always keep my currently running driver at hand when I upgrade one. If there are problems, I return to that driver and skip a release (or 10 releases, when nVidia was fracking up the GTX 560 Ti a few years ago, unable to get a crash bug fixed for about a year).