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funeralpyre88 
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 Topic: spybotPosted: 16 Feb 2011 at 12:53pm |
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If I am running Spybot S&D (or a similar program) on a 5.0 Ghz cpu, will the spyware scan take less time than if I was running on, say, a 3.0 Ghz cpu? I am wondering if the hardware can only go as fast as the software can go. Of course I know that the software can only go as fast as the hardware.
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Dragoonseal
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Posted: 16 Feb 2011 at 1:26pm |
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Any scanning software is generally HDD speed bottlenecked, I would think.
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Seelig
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Posted: 16 Feb 2011 at 1:37pm |
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Neither Spybot nor any other software for that matter, will run any faster than the slowest component on the computer that it uses. Typically the I/O (disk) is the slowest component on a computer. So if you run a program doing a lot of disk reads and/or writes (like Spybot) with the same hard disk on a 5 GHz computer and a 3 GHz computer, you will not see any significant difference in run times between the two computers.
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