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Posted by Crono on Fri May 21st at 9:25am 2004

I need to get a massive amount of individuals 'data', so if you would be so kind as to fill out this survey I would be very grateful

Oh ... and you can banter on any gripes, complaints, or anything as such about the survey here as well ... [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri May 21st at 9:33am 2004

"Is it necessary to have several case fans (for various reasons)."

having a choice 'disagree' doesnt really make sense, since you arer asking a question, not making a statement that can be agreed with.



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Posted by Crono on Fri May 21st at 9:35am 2004

I must have writen it incorrectly when transfering it. the "it" and "is" should be swapped. Thanks for pointing it out.

[EDIT]
fixed.
[/EDIT] [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Fri May 21st at 10:47am 2004

Q3: i put 50/50, a 5400rpm hard drive is faster than a 7200rpm hard drive [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri May 21st at 11:07am 2004

Well any factor can be limiting on any system... if you have the best computer in the world, but a 1 megabyte/second hard drive, it will run slow as hell. if you have amazing PC with 64 megs of RAM, it will run slow... I think there is no particular thing that can make a system, but loads of things that can really limit a system that would otherwise be good.



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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 21st at 11:36am 2004

I agree, this survey doesn't really work in my opinion - there is no correct answer to any questions (eg. RAM is a major determinant, but not the major determinant). [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Fri May 21st at 11:54am 2004

I think the point in the survey is your opinion and how much people know about such things, if it was actually technical there are better ways to find this stuff out, e.g. benchmarks. And Reno, you can get that point across just by agreeing with several of the determinants!!



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Posted by fishy on Fri May 21st at 11:56am 2004

i disagreed with all of the statements claiming that certain individual parts were the determinant factor, and could only go 50/50 that they play an equal part. what will affect a system really depends on how its put together in the first place. but you already know that.

the only one that i could strongly agree with is that dust can play a major role in performance. i know this to my cost.

[edit] and forms that reset to blank if you missed a field have always bugged me. */me has sideways glance at Lep too* [/edit]





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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 21st at 12:06pm 2004

I guess so Lep, but it read to me like your meant to almost choose one...but I suppose if that was the case it would have been "What is the major determinant in computer performance?" with each component as answers. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Fri May 21st at 3:49pm 2004

The problem with everything is that I have to quantify the data. So, technically you do get a score

But it's no big deal. (Jeff has the right idea though), You really have to pay attention to the wording of the statements. (The system you own doesn't work into the calculations, if you were wondering).

The whole point of the first three questions is that there is NO DETERMINANT factor for speeding up your computer.

Secondly, 50/50 means, you're inbetweening agreeing and disagreeing with the statement's correctness.

Technically there are right answers. And the more you know about this stuff, the better you 'score' you'll get on it.

Anyway, this is for a class so I can use the data to write my final paper. So, keep on taking it. (Please don't take it more then once!).

and thanks again

[EDIT]
If you do not have an occupation put "Unemployed". If you are just going to school put "student"

I have two from one person that has "n/a" as a major.

See, I'm splitting the data up based on the major/occupation, so ... I'm going to count that as unemployed ... but that's just a guess at what they are :
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Posted by Dred_furst on Fri May 21st at 4:28pm 2004

well, ive filled it out, very intresting...

University work?





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Posted by Forceflow on Fri May 21st at 4:37pm 2004

done and done



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri May 21st at 4:54pm 2004

I put 50/50 for those first three questions since they are all important componants, but each useless by themselves. [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Fri May 21st at 5:00pm 2004

I know it's just for data collection purposes to further your work/project, but a badly written/phrased survey has the potential to produce completely "skew-wiff" results...

Just a thought, the phrasing is a little off on the questions IMO.

[addsig]



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Posted by Kain on Fri May 21st at 10:03pm 2004

what's "x86"?



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Posted by Crono on Fri May 21st at 11:01pm 2004

A computer type of architecture created by Intel in the mid-late 70's.
The other architectures (on that survey) are: L68, SPARC, and IBM360.

But what is most commonly known as a "PC" uses the x86 architecture. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat May 22nd at 12:14am 2004

Which one does Alpha come under? Not that I have that, just interested.



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Posted by Crono on Sat May 22nd at 12:56am 2004

RISC.

That one took some architecture class notes [addsig]



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Posted by wil5on on Sat May 22nd at 4:11am 2004

x86 = 286, 386, 486, 586, 686.

Should I include machines that arent working? I guess not...

EDIT: After reading those 2 posts made while I typed this one I figured out that x86/windows still applies to me.

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Posted by Kain on Sat May 22nd at 6:26am 2004

ooh i see;so Pentium is a 586, i suppose; i started with a 286... that was so slow.... and i used to play "prince of persia".... good old times




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