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Bill in Co
Flightless Bird
I was thinking about possibly upgrading my current 1.6 GHz CPU on my Dell
Desktop with a faster 2.2 GHz CPU (which is compatible and available), but I
had a couple of general questions:
Would upgrading the CPU would require some, or perhaps most, apps to need to
be reactivated again, due to tripping some copy protection features of the
apps?
IOW, will apps typically look at that alone and that's enough, or does it
take 2 or more large changes to the system to normally trigger it?
Also, when making image backups on my system to my second internal SATA2
drive, I am now getting a throughput of around 1.5 GBytes per minute. Is
that max transfer speed limit likely due to my slow CPU speed (I have a 1.6
GHz CPU), or more likely a limit of the disk drive (or other motherboard
components)? As I recall, I think the theoretical transfer limit of SATA2
hard drives is supposed to be around 3 Gbits per second, so I'm not sure if
the hard drive itself is the primary limit here. If so, then a CPU upgrade
wouldn't affect that transfer rate either.
I'm also assuming that the byte to bit conversion is 8 bits per byte, but
I'm not sure if that's correct (maybe there are some overhead bits, and it's
more like 10 bits per byte should be used for the conversions?)
Desktop with a faster 2.2 GHz CPU (which is compatible and available), but I
had a couple of general questions:
Would upgrading the CPU would require some, or perhaps most, apps to need to
be reactivated again, due to tripping some copy protection features of the
apps?
IOW, will apps typically look at that alone and that's enough, or does it
take 2 or more large changes to the system to normally trigger it?
Also, when making image backups on my system to my second internal SATA2
drive, I am now getting a throughput of around 1.5 GBytes per minute. Is
that max transfer speed limit likely due to my slow CPU speed (I have a 1.6
GHz CPU), or more likely a limit of the disk drive (or other motherboard
components)? As I recall, I think the theoretical transfer limit of SATA2
hard drives is supposed to be around 3 Gbits per second, so I'm not sure if
the hard drive itself is the primary limit here. If so, then a CPU upgrade
wouldn't affect that transfer rate either.
I'm also assuming that the byte to bit conversion is 8 bits per byte, but
I'm not sure if that's correct (maybe there are some overhead bits, and it's
more like 10 bits per byte should be used for the conversions?)