Hi All,
This question has been addressed many times, but not recently and
definitely not in regard to S-PLUS 7. I am in the fortunate position of
getting a new desktop (unfortunately it'll have to run Windows XP).
Essentailly, my question is, is there such thing as too much RAM,
especially given S-PLUS 7's "pipeline architecture" and "big data
library" (which I know next to nothing about)? Is 2GB enough? Is 4GB
overkill? Whatever amount of memory I get, I'm thinking of 533MHz SDRAM
rather than the 400 MHz.
Right now, I'm looking at a Pentium 4 Processor, 3.4 GHz, 1MB cache, and
800 MHz FSB. Previous messages in the Archives suggest that dual
processors or hyperthreading doesn't help much with SPLUS (unless
you're having the computer perform multiple tasks such as web browsing or
word processing while running SPLUS). Is that still the case? I'm
guessing given other messages in the Arhives that going to 3.6 GHz
processor probably wouldn't be noticable.
Are there other bottlenecks I should be aware of? Any advice would be
very helpful!
Thanks,
Andy
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