<p>Have you narrowed it down to the CPU being the bottleneck? What's the GPU? I ended up solving a bug with my system recently. nVidia's drivers have forced me to disable my motherboard graphics, fully relying on my dedicated card. Leaving my integrated graphics enabled caused my computer to lag strangely.</p>
<p>As far as minecraft goes, I use a GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Phenom quad 9650. It flies. Core i processors just look so expensive, but I'm cheap. I like using Tom's Hardware "best gaming [cpu, gpu] for the money" when planning out builds. I hope this helped somehow.</p>
<p>Chris... iPad better than a C2d? My roommate's selling an HP laptop that is worlds more useful to me than any Apple embedded device. Besides, how can you call an iPad strong when it can't even run Linux? :P</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 17, 2012 9:42 PM, "Christopher Smith" <<a href="mailto:cbsmith@gmail.com">cbsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Dan Kegel <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> My Core 2 Duo systems are starting to feel slow (son<br>
> wants more FPS in minecraft, and I don't want to share<br>
> my i7 :-) so I'm looking for the sweet spot again.<br>
<br>
Kind of crazy that a Core2 Duo system can't match an iPad (and an old<br>
one at that).<br>
<br>
--<br>
Chris<br>
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