Kids PC

[Bruce Almighty]

My nephews (8 & 10) are on the farm office computer too much for my liking so I’m going to buy them their own.

Would this be suitable. ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FULL-DEL...dmm6nlc4r153QYyvOfmQ:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true

Thanks

 

[ollie989898]

My nephews (8 & 10) are on the farm office computer too much for my liking so I’m going to buy them their own.

Would this be suitable. ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FULL-DEL...dmm6nlc4r153QYyvOfmQ:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true

Thanks

Hold your horses.

What are these kids going to do on this PC and for how long?

That thing will not run the latest iteration of farming simulator if you get my drift.

 

[Storeman]

Hold your horses.

What are these kids going to do on this PC and for how long?

That thing will not run the latest iteration of farming simulator if you get my drift.

For a bit of basic web surfing, it will be just about fine, but as Ollie says, anything else and it will struggle.

 

[ollie989898]

Basically, if you want a PC today, you need it to have at least 8 GB of RAM (right now on this PC I am using 6.5 GB just running windows, a browser and MS office apps), a solid state hard drive (aim for 256GB if possible) and Windows 10. The processor is largely secondary these days as even the lowliest ones are so potent.

If you want it to run any kind of game beyond solitaire you will need a graphics card which is a whole different board game along with a reasonable CPU but you don't need to go mental.

 

[Storeman]

Basically, if you want a PC today, you need it to have at least 8 GB of RAM (right now on this PC I am using 6.5 GB just running windows, a browser and MS office apps), a solid state hard drive (aim for 256GB if possible) and Windows 10. The processor is largely secondary these days as even the lowliest ones are so potent.

If you want it to run any kind of game beyond solitaire you will need a graphics card which is a whole different board game along with a reasonable CPU but you don't need to go mental.

6.5 GB just running those few items? Something not right there.
Running Windows 7 here, Adobe Premiere Pro is running as is After Effects plus Firefox with 5 tabs open and I'm only using 3.4GB out of 16 GB available. May be worth openeing Task Manager and see what is running and using so much.

 

[ollie989898]

6.5 GB just running those few items? Something not right there.
Running Windows 7 here, Adobe Premiere Pro is running as is After Effects plus Firefox with 5 tabs open and I'm only using 3.4GB out of 16 GB available. May be worth openeing Task Manager and see what is running and using so much.

Not really considering the workload I have running. Bear in mind I run three monitors so I can work on a document and conduct research all at the same time. From the list of processes.

29 tabs on Opera browser (Opera is known to be a memory hog mind), one of which is TFF, another is youtube (background study music). Three tabs are using 300,000 KB each, the rest are about 80,000 KB.
4 tabs Vivaldi (Another browser). So far down the list I can't see em, 50,000 each?
MS Word 228,000 KB.
Discord- one process- 40,000 KB.
Evernote- one process- 50,000 KB
One steam process is 128,000 KB alone.
I expect Norton internet security is another 300,000 KB, too.
Plus there are the intel utilities that run my SSDs.
I had Amazon music minimised as well, another 100,00KB in idle mode.

Computer doesn't even know any of this stuff is running, I have 16GB of RAM.

 

[Storeman]

Not really considering the workload I have running. Bear in mind I run three monitors so I can work on a document and conduct research all at the same time. From the list of processes.

29 tabs on Opera browser (Opera is known to be a memory hog mind), one of which is TFF, another is youtube (background study music). Three tabs are using 300,000 KB each, the rest are about 80,000 KB.
4 tabs Vivaldi (Another browser). So far down the list I can't see em, 50,000 each?
MS Word 228,000 KB.
Discord- one process- 40,000 KB.
Evernote- one process- 50,000 KB
One steam process is 128,000 KB alone.
I expect Norton internet security is another 300,000 KB, too.
Plus there are the intel utilities that run my SSDs.
I had Amazon music minimised as well, another 100,00KB in idle mode.

Computer doesn't even know any of this stuff is running, I have 16GB of RAM.

Ah,Norton....... say no more.

 

[ollie989898]

Ah,Norton....... say no more.

That is a myth today I am afraid. Used to be the case, not any longer. They all have similar memory footprints.

https://www.geckoandfly.com/8450/top-5-lightest-antivirus-on-memory-during-idle-and-scanning/

 

[Storeman]

That is a myth today I am afraid. Used to be the case, not any longer. They all have similar memory footprints.

https://www.geckoandfly.com/8450/top-5-lightest-antivirus-on-memory-during-idle-and-scanning/

No, it's not.
It's not about memory footprints, it's about the excessive use of memory.
And there's no need to be afraid.

 

[ollie989898]

No, it's not.
It's not about memory footprints, it's about the excessive use of memory.
And there's no need to be afraid.

Define excessive use of memory if not memory footprint. I take it you read the article.

 

[Storeman]

Define excessive use of memory if not memory footprint. I take it you read the article.

Apologies, excessive use of memory should read excessive use of CPU resources.