Need advice on laptop CPU and RAM

Hello,
I've just started a Multimedia and Design education, where I will be working with Adobe cc - mostly Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign. I'm looking for a portable laptop to use while in school, and I have found one with a good IPS display and SSD.
My question is, if I should I go with an dual core i5-4210M (2,6Ghz) or a quad core i7-4712MQ (2,3GHz)? - and If I should go for 8GB of RAM or 16GB?
I have googled for hours now and people seem to have very different opinions on what these programs need in order to run good. I realize that more is better, but I want to know if it's necessary.
At home I have a stationary PC with a 4790K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980, SSD +HHD which I will be using for all my work when at home. So the laptop I'm looking to buy is "just" my placeholder while in school - Not 8 hours a day as a job, but as a learning tool that will be sufficient and get the job done when I'm not at home.
I'm really hoping some of you could shed some light on what I should be going for here.
Thanks.

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Need advice on school laptop CPU and RAM

Hello,
I've just started a Multimedia and Design education, where I will be working with Adobe cc - mostly Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign. I'm looking for a portable laptop to use while in school, and I have found one with a good IPS display and SSD.
My question is, if I should I go with an dual core i5-4210M (2,6Ghz) or a quad core i7-4712MQ (2,3GHz)? - and If I should go for 8GB of RAM or 16GB?
I have googled for hours now and people seem to have very different opinions on what these programs need in order to run good. I realize that more is better, but I want to know if it's necessary.
At home I have a stationary PC with a 4790K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980, SSD +HHD which I will be using for all my work when at home. So the laptop I'm looking to buy is "just" my placeholder while in school - Not 8 hours a day as a job, but as a learning tool that will be sufficient and get the job done when I'm not at home.
I'm really hoping some of you could shed some light on what I should be going for here.
Thanks.

At the very least 16 GB of RAM.
And plenty of HD or SSD available space to accommodate both the Photoshop scratch file and the swap files of your OS.
The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

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Swap:      1077501952      8540160      1068961792
MemTotal:          1031016 kB
MemFree:          13548 kB
MemShared:          0 kB
Buffers:          98064 kB
Cached:               692320 kB
SwapCached:          2244 kB
Active:               563112 kB
Inact_dirty:          309584 kB
Inact_clean:          79508 kB
Inact_target:          190440 kB
HighTotal:          130992 kB
HighFree:          1876 kB
LowTotal:          900024 kB
LowFree:          11672 kB
SwapTotal:          1052248 kB
SwapFree:          1043908 kB
Committed_AS:          332340 kB
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cpu family : 15
model : 31
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cpu MHz : 994.927
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6 Support
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HELP: Premiere Pro CC not using all CPU and RAM during rendering and export

Hello,
I am using Premiere Pro CC on a Windows 7. My timeline is quite simple with two videos, one with the movie (mpeg) and the other with the subtitles (avi).
When I render the sequence in PP or export, the rendering time is way too slow and it only uses around 15-20% of the CPU and 3 GB of RAM.
My hardware config is :
- CPU : i7-4770k 3.50Ghz
- RAM : 8 GB
- Disk : 2 x 3 TB SATA (no raid)
RAM is not the bottleneck, neither the disk access.
I have tried rendering and exporting the same project on an iMac (with an i5 2.7 Ghz and 4 GB RAM and only 1 disk) and the result is 4x faster !!!
The CPU usage is close to 100% as well as RAM usage.
So how come PP uses all resources availble on an iMac and not on a Windows 7 ?
Is there any known bug or software bottleneck on Windows 7 ?
My machine is brand new and nothing much installed besides Adobe products.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks,

I just rendered out a a 2 minute sequence with about 100 clips in it and Colorista effects on everything to the Vimeo 1080 H264 preset. It took about 5 minutes to render straight from Premiere, it used all the recourses it could, my CPU was running at near %100, same with my ram and GPU, I was happy.
Then I did another render with Red Giant Denoiser and it now wants to take 30 mins and it is only using about %20 of the recourses available. My problem isn't that its taking longer with Denoiser but that its not using all of my computers CPU and GPU.
Im rendering at maximum render quality and bit dept to H264 (Im happy to wait the extra time), if I try to use VRB 2 it encodes 1 pass at a time and wants to take up to 40 minutes.
I would appreciate some advice on this.
Premiere Pro CC 2013
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB (CUDA GPU enabled in Premiere)
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

Measuring the cpu and ram consumption of a given query in sql server

hello there how you doing and am new to this sql server forum and i suddenly popped to ask questions related to sql server
and my question goes like this
in sql server i have table called testt and it have more thna10000000 records
and i have written a query select * from testt limit 9000000; and what i want is to measure the
CPU consumption of this given query=???????????????
and
RAM consumption of this given query=???????????????
Time consumption of this given query=?????????????? this i will get it from the result bar but i don't know whether it is correct or not
any help on this it may be query, tool or configurations all are acceptable and appreciated
10Q for letting me ask questions and feeling freely.

Please check these queries and this may helps you to get whats happening on with CPU currently..
SELECT getdate() as "RunTime", st.text, qp.query_plan, a.* FROM sys.dm_exec_requests a CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(a.sql_handle) as st CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(a.plan_handle) as qp order by CPU_time desc
Top 50 CPU usage :
SELECT TOP 50 st.text
               ,st.dbid
               ,st.objectid
               ,qs.total_worker_time
               ,qs.last_worker_time
               ,qp.query_plan
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) st
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) qp
ORDER BY qs.total_worker_time DESC
SP_Whoisactive --- download from : http://www.brentozar.com/responder/log-sp_whoisactive-to-a-table/
Activity Monitor and sp_who2 active also will give some idea...
Reference links...
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL-server-High-CPU--Part-1
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Troubleshooting-SQL-server-High-CPU--Part-2
http://jeffstevenson.karamazovgroup.com/2008/09/identifying-high-cpu-sql-processes.html
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tutorial/Step-1-CPU-usage
================
Execute this script and and start doing your analysis in your server so that you will get more idea how its working and all the details...
Sample CPU Test : Dont try this in production and try this in your test or Dev server..
-- Query to Keep CPU Busy for 2 0 Seconds
DECLARE    @T DATETIME, @F BIGINT;
SET @T = GETDATE();
WHILE DATEADD(SECOND,20,@T)>GETDATE()
SET    @F=POWER(2,30);
You can easily change the parameter in the DATEADD and can make it run for 50 seconds.
-- Query to Keep CPU Busy for 50 Seconds
DECLARE    @T DATETIME, @F BIGINT;
SET @T = GETDATE();
WHILE DATEADD(SECOND,50,@T)>GETDATE()
SET    @F=POWER(2,30);
Raju Rasagounder MSSQL DBA

Upgrading the GPU, CPU and RAM of my Laptop n201ax

This maybe is a really long post but please answer because i really need answers for each one of these questions and i really want to upgrade my laptop to the best configuration If i Can.Let me make this clear first.* In the upcoming content the words "this laptop" always refers to Hp Pavilion 15-n201ax*
Okay so first of all i read somewhere that the maximum Ram of this laptop can be expanded till 16gb but the i came up with this link here -http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware-Upgrades-Replacements/I-would-like-to-upgrade-memory-of-my-laptop-HP-15-n201ax/td-p/5146905 And then i came to know that it can only be upgraded to 12gb by reading Page #2 Chapter 1 Description of this Guide-http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04438537.pdfFirst of all i would like to ask is that, 1. Can i buy a ram of any brand but ofc the same clock speed ie 1600mhz?, so can i go for the GSkill 4gb 1600Mhz DDR3 ram?2. Does the size matter to the respective slots? or i can install the 8gb and 4gb ram in any alternate slots? So this was all about the RAM But i need to know if i can change the discrete GPU and APU of this laptop3. And if Yes - Which are the compatible mobile GPU's that i can install by removing the previous one ie AMD 8600M (For example the R9, R7 and R5 Laptop graphics)4. And Which are the compatible APU's that i can install by removing the previous APU ie AMD A10-4655M APU (For example the AMD FX APU for Laptops)5. If i can upgrade the GPU and APU both please tell that does the compatibility matters? like only a specific GPU can work with a specific APU ie like in this laptop AMD A10-4655M APU + AMD 8600M GPU. Please Help Me out, Please.Thanks in advance.

Huffer wrote:
Pavilion 15-n201ax? We are going to need to refer to the Service Manual here: Your Service Manual Officially, it only supports 12 gigs. Your model has a single 8 gig module so you have an open slot. Unofficially, may users here have reported that adding another 8 gigs to make a total of 16 gigs will work fine. But that is something you take the risk of doing, since it is unofficial. The part numbers for the proper memory are listed on page 42. You need DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM. If you are going to go official, the 4 gig module is: 691740-001 This is it on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/HP-691740-001-1600MHz-PC3L-12800-memory/dp/B00CI08FX4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437948185&sr=8-1&keywords=691740-001 You should just leave the 8 gig where it is and add the new memory in the open slot. On your model laptop, the GPU/APU is soldered to the motherboard. In order to do any upgrade you would need to buy a new motherboard. You have a whole incorrect idea that the GPU/APU can be removed and replaced and this is incorrect. The term APU means a processor that has video built in so the whole question about compatibility between GPUs and APUs just misses the mark. On some systems the GPU/APU is socketed and can be replaced which serves to replace/upgrade both the processor and video function but as stated above, on yours this involves pulling and replacing the whole motherboard. There is a slightly better processor/graphics available using the AMD A10-5745M 8670M (2.9 GHz/2.1 GHz, 2 GB L2, 1333MHz DDR3L Quad 25W) for use with Windows Standard. The motherboard part is 734824-501 HP does not stock the board but I found this online: http://www.discounteddealz.com/product.asp?itemid=327740&gclid=CO78y6rn-cYCFQmCaQodOP0GLQ Never heard of this seller and can't vouch but the price is very reasonable for that board. I expected it to be quite a bit more which makes me wonder about this seller a bit. I would advise keeping what you have. It is very strong for AMD and upgrading to the A10-5745 board will only result in a very small uptick in performance at a very high cost in money and effort. If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. Hey sorry but i should have mentioned this before, I live in India and the links you provided are for amazon.comi tried to search on amazon.in and eneded up with this http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=HP+691740-001+4GB%2C+1600MHz%2C+PC3L-12800+DDR3L+DIMM&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AHP+691740-001+4GB\c+1600MHz\c+PC3L-12800+DDR3L+DIMM Instead, can i get this one ? beacuse the hp one on the above result costs 41% more than the Transcend one below and that's very much http://www.amazon.in/Transcend-4GB-DDR3L-1600-LAPTOP/dp/B00B5LOOJG/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1437984575&sr=1-2&keywords=ddr3l+4gb+1600mhz And last thing is that Will the performance be better if i go for Ram branks like Corsair or GSkill same types of memory?

I need advice for a CPU upgrade...please and thank you!!!

Hi, I own a lenovo3000 n100 076804U, with a T2060. I am thinking of upgrading to windows 7 and going 64 bit. Can anyone tell me what processor I might jump up to that will work in this system? I know very little about laptops but I build my own desktops. This is for travel and I don't use it much, so buying a new laptop isn't really what I want to do. But I would like all of my systems to run the same OS. Thanks for your help.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have the same model, and just put in a T5600 which
I purchased on eBay. Works Great, and windows 7
is a joy to use compared to vista.
The only driver I had to install was for the card reader.

Firefox/plug-in container eats all cpu and ram only flash plug-in installed no theme new profile new windows install still can't fix

I've been through hundreds of posts in the last year. back then all of a bloody sudden firefox starts eating my computer. 500+mb of use ram during normal browsing.
Decent cpu use at around 25% but if i turn on youtube it hits 80% for about 6 mins then it's 97% to 100% and it's always in constant motion between those 4 values.
playing any game which uses flash or java quickly become unplayable and I've seen it hit 1gb+ ram use.
turning off flash protected fixed youtube but it's unsafe so need a different fix. and I'm out of ideas for everything else. I.E same problem, chrome is even worse than FF, and opera won't even run. so what do i do now

1. it's wrong I have the current version 12. something.
2. just firefox not even counting the plug-in container.
3. the laptop is old almost 4 years, 1.93 GB of ram, only antivirus begins at start up, linux is something I'd rather not mess with a couple stupid people use my computer, and i have an intel celeron 900 2.20 GHz single core.
you sounded condescending careful it's far more telling than you realize.

New to Mac...Need advice...MBP and My Book external drive

I'm new to Mac. Getting my MBP 2.4GHz/15" in tomorrow and this will be a migration from the Windows world to the Mac world for me. So I need some advice.
I received my My Book Pro 500GB external HDD in today and have a friend's MacBook running the current version of OS X to do any work I need to do to this HDD.
I'm going to have Windows XP Home available via Boot Camp and Parallels (depending on whether I need to run natively or not) in case that matters.
Here's what I have in terms of data:
- about 2GB of data files (Word, Excel, etc.)
- about 6GB worth of photo files
- about 85GB of home movies that are in .avi format at this time
I'm a little overwhelmed with all that I've been trying to digest regarding this move and just found out my laptop will be here tomorrow. I thought I had some extra time but that hasn't turned out to be the case.
What doesn't make sense to me right now is how to get my data over to my new machine, move what isn't critical to have on the laptop's HDD out to external, and how to figure out which file system I'll need on this external drive. My laptop will be partitioned with 30GB available to Windows and the other 130GB for Mac. Do I need to format this external drive with the Mac file system only? Or do I need to leave some space formatted FAT32 in case I need some overflow on the Windows side? Will the Windows environment be able to see any of the Journaled space on either the internal or external drive? I assume not.
I'm so confused right now, I can't even put anything down but these fragmented thoughts. Hopefully somebody knows where I'm at and can give me some advice.
Thanks-
John
MacBook Pro 2.4GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Start with Switching from Windows to Mac OS X and Basic Tutorials on using a Mac.
Since I don't have an ICBM (Intel-chip-based Mac), I can't help with the external HD stuff. However, you should be aware that file system formats and partition mapping schemes are two different things.
OS X requires the Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system formatting—applies to both PPCs and ICBMs. Details on file system formats are in http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/FileSystem/Artic les/MacOSXAndFiles.html
ICBMs the GUID Partition Table scheme. Details on partition mapping schemes are in http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universalbinary/universal_binary_tips/chapter_5_section10.html
Whether or not you can use both the Mac OS Extended and FAT-32 formats on separate volumes, I'll leave to the other experts.

Need advice about Mac Pro and Windows networking

I currently have 2 machines at work: One HP Windows PC (high configuration) and a PowerMac G5 2GHz dual. I'm basically close to purchasing a new Mac Pro to replace both machines but need some advice. I do the majority of design work on the Mac. However I need the Windows PC to also do some design work but mainly use it to connect into the windows network at work. Basically I need to be able to access the network drives (which are set up with Novell Netware, with IPX turned off), Novell GroupWise email system and connect to the internet through the LAN. Can I do this with a Mac Pro, with either Bootcamp or Parallels? Is there any sacrifice in terms of performance in using Bootcamp or Parallels? The end result I want is similar to what I am doing at the moment - at the moment I use a PC to network and the Mac to design, side by side with each other. What I want is to do this from one machine, not two. (I also need the PC side of things as I need to use some software that isn't available on the Mac, eg. bespoke databases that run on PC). Is it easy to network under Bootcamp/Parallels? What pitfalls are there that I need to be aware of?

When your running Windows via bootcamp, you are essentially Running windows on a PC architecture. You will have all the same capabilities that you have now.
When you use Parallels to run Windows, you are running Windows as a virtual machine running within the confines of the Mac OS. The advantage is that you can run multiple OS's at the same time, and easily share files and data between them. The disadvantage is that the OS running within Parallels has a slightly performance hit, meaning you are not running as fast as the bootcamp version, but the performance hit is very slight. The only place that Parallels is lacking at the moment is in support of 3D or accelerated graphics. That is Parallels currently cannot make use of a graphics card 3D capabilities or advance GPU options. Parallels has stated their intent is to provide better graphic card support in the near future.
With all this in mind, I don;t see any reason why you cannot use Parallels for your Windows networking needs, and the Mac for your design needs, all at the same time. You will need of course to ensure you have enough RAM to support both OS's if you intend to run them at the same time.
Tom N.

CPU and RAM for TimesTen

I have test performance statistics for our java application (using oracle db) on a 4 X Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 8360 SE cpu node with 64 GB RAM.
I am trying to collect performance statistics for TimesTen on a 2 X Dual Core Intel Xeon 5160 cpu node with 8 GB RAM.
My question is how does TimesTen treat processors. Is dual core considered as 2 cpu or single cpu?
So am I comparing performance - (2 X 2 = 4) TT vs (4 X 4 = 16) Oracle DB ?
Any suggestions on how should we compare the performance statistics obtained on the two machines ?

Please see my answers embedded below:
1. Under what conditions does TimesTen use multiple processors ?
CJ>> There are many background daemon components to TimesTen that are multi-threaded and may use multiple processors to some extent as required (main daemon, sub-daemons, replication agent, cache agent).
The main daemon is a very lightweight process that is purely supervisory in nature. It is not involved in database transatcion processing etc. and so its CPU usage is very low.
Each active datastore (database) has a dedicated managing sub-daemon. Again, this is not directly involved in transaction processing but it too has several threads. The checkpointer thread may use a lot of CPU while a checkpoint is occurring. The log flusher thread will use CPU in proportion to the intensity of write operations (primarily INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in the application workload (this thread is responsible or flushing the transaction log buffer to the log files on disk).
If replication, or AWT caching, is used the replication agent transmitter and/or receiver threads may use significant CPU depending on the replicated workload.
If Cache Connect is being used then the cache agent threads may use significant CPU when e.g. an AUTOREFRESH is in progress.
These ar all background activities and you do not have direct control over how many CPUs or how much CPU time is used by them. They will try and use what they need and the O/S will allocate them time based on available system resources.
Equally significant is the CPU power used to process application transactions. Each application process/thread that is executing via a separate connection will potentially be executing concurrently within TimesTen hence if you have 20 application threads (or processes) each with its own connection to a TimesTen datastore then TimesTen could potentially use up to 20 CPUs/cores concurrently. This is the key factor in your ability to control how many CPUs/cores TimesTen. The crucial things to understand here are:
1. In direct connection mode there is no dedicated TimesTen server process. All DBMS logic is encapsulated in the TimesTen library (libtten.so). All database query and transaction processing is actually executed in the context of the application thrad that makes the database call. Hence, as I mentioned, if there are 'n' concurrent application processes/threads each with a separate database connection then TimesTen can potentially use 'n' CPUs/cores concurrently. Essentially, # concurrent connections = max concurrent CPUs/coires.
2. In client server there is a dedicated server process or thread (depending on configuration) for each application connection and so again # concurrent connections = maximum number of concurrent CPUs / cores that will be used.
2. What techniques do I use to ensure maximum performance on this -
a. Machine with 2 cpu (each is a dual core processor) and 8 GB RAM.
CJ>> The number of physical CPUs (chips) is irrelevant. What matters is the number of cores. In this case 4. So, the system can concurrently execute up to 4 tasks. Anything more than 4 and tasks may have to wait for available CPU in order to execute. Since there are no blocking operations within TimesTen database processing then from a TimesTen perspective this machine can execute 4 application threads performing database access at maximum speed. Of course in reality CPU time is needed for the application, O/S, TT background processes etc. etc. so one would aim for fewer than 4 concurrent database processes. This assumes of cousre that there is no blocking at the application level either and that these processes or threads can therefore spend 100% of the available time executing. If the application blocks for any reason (e.g. waiting for the next 'request' from somewhere) then this introduces idle toime and so one can increase the number of concurrent application processes/threads to use up this idle time thereby increasing overall throughput.
b. Application using direct connection mode with weblogic Application server
CJ>> See my comments above. Generally one would use a connection pool and configure the number of connections to optimise performance (some experiments will be needed to arrive at the optimal value since it is very much dependant on the application workload and processing model).
c. All data is cached in TimesTen (using Cache Groups) for read intensive operations (There are few write operations as well but TT is mainly for the reads). Should the connections be 4 or 3 in this case ?
CJ>> If the volume of cache refrshes is low then you don't ned to 'reserve' much CPU for checkpointing logging and so you have all 4 cores available for application+database processing (plus O/S etc.). If the application is mostly using the database and not waiting for stuff outside the database then the optimal number of connections is probably in the range of 3-6. If the application does a lot of non-database work which may include waiting for things then the optimal number of connections will be much higher. Again, you need to experiment to find out what is optimal.
Chris

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