For day2day probably the SSD - having no head to throw around reading accounts for a lot. (If I haven't said it, good for you to spent the money on things you enjoy - is the i7 in somehow complimentary colour to the one housing the horses?) But the task described here might be more akin to bulk loading into server, video transforming or even stage table work and there multiple physical disks make for a happy dev ;-)

>I recently bought a new PC with an i7 chip, more memory, Windows 8, and an SSD drive. So I can't isolate where the performance improvement is coming from. But it is phenomenal.
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>>As the vfp process is only 1/3 of needed processing time the "core" argument only works part.
>>There probably is more performance to be gained for that 2H recurring vfp task by optimizing, but that won't speed up the file conversion by external tools.
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>>SSD will speed up reading of small files scattered over the disk - but the described task ***might*** be better off by using two separate physical disks giving in and output the chance to operate without head movement on traditional disks with a third one housing program and OS, as writing to SSD is slower than reading and bulk writing to traditional disk with a large RAM buffer can be blindingly fast. Coupling that with good housekeeping like having a newly formated partion with more than 3 times the space really needed only used for those data files will make fragmentation worries moot. The info offered on the task (80000 files in 2H of vfp and 4H of other processing) is not nearly enough to get a clear picture, 11/5.5 files per second might be mostly I/O or mostly processing - reworking JSON or XML files is different from adding a header to video files ;-)
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>>>Multiple cores will make little difference for VFP as it can't use multiple cores. Some OS functionality will happen on the other core, thus giving you a slight improvement.
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>>>Also, because VFP is a 32 bit app, 8 Gig won't benefit you any because VFP will only be able to use about 3 Gig RAM. If you get a 64 bit OS, you will again get some improvement from the OS using some of that.
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>>>A faster process will make a difference.
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>>>I totally agree with the suggestion to go with SSD.
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>>>>I need to purchase or Upgrade my PC.Currently I have DUAL Core 1.86 GhZ and 1 GB RAM. an 80 GB Hard Disk and XP opertaion system
>>>>with My requirement is:-
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>>>>1. currently I have a VFP application that takes around 2 Hours for Data processing (Makes Changes in text files) for around 80000 files.
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>>>>2 After the files are being changed, they are to be converted into other format using PS2PDF tools like, that takes another 4 Hours,
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>>>>Thus my total times comes around 6 to 6 HRS. I need to drastically cut it down. I am planning to buy i7 4770k Processor, 8 GB RAM, and 1 TB HDD, 2 GB Graphics card with windows 7 or 8,
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>>>>Kinldy Guide what would be best configration. Also Guide...
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>>>>1, Should I go for Laptop or Desktop ?
>>>>2 Assembeled or Branded One ?
>>>>3 If Brabded, which Brand and where to Buy online?
>>>>4 Are there any Cheap and relaible sites from where I could directly purchase spares or compete Desktop or Laptop.
>>>>5 What is the difference between BOX and Tray i7 4770k as there is a difference of rate in the two.
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>>>>Regards
>>>>Code Box