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A long time ago, I worked in a computer repair shop. An old lady brought in her desktop for malware removal. It was a nicely spec’d machine, and included an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700.
At the time, I had a Core 2 Duo E6600, I was on a tight budget, and was big into gaming.
“She’ll be fine.” “She doesn’t even know what’s in there now.” “She’s not using it to its full potential…”
I convinced myself it was a victimless crime.
I swapped the processors. :(
Did it make much of a difference in gaming?
Honestly, probably not, but I was also getting into running VMs and such as well, which did.
Yeah I doubt she'd notice. She probably only did basic stuff like sending emails and facsbook and stuff.