Permie co have given me a 2xQuad core Xeon PC with an SSD, Windows 7x64 and 4GB RAM. However, one thing I've noticed is despite having 8 CPUs to play with, multitasking whilst doing a large Visual Studio build kind of sucks.
It's somewhat suprising, not least because the main thing that impressed me with Windows 7 (as I experienced on my much more modest dual core laptop and desktop), is that the GUI would remain responsive whilst doing something disk intensive like a build. But that doesn't seem to be the case on this machine.
Is it possible that a faster SSD means that much more of the system resources are being used on the disk system, therefore the rest of the system becomes less responsive? Whereas a slower hard disk would allow much better multitasking.
Thoughts?
It's somewhat suprising, not least because the main thing that impressed me with Windows 7 (as I experienced on my much more modest dual core laptop and desktop), is that the GUI would remain responsive whilst doing something disk intensive like a build. But that doesn't seem to be the case on this machine.
Is it possible that a faster SSD means that much more of the system resources are being used on the disk system, therefore the rest of the system becomes less responsive? Whereas a slower hard disk would allow much better multitasking.
Thoughts?
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