How to get the most out of EXCEL? (Hardware-Wise)

Originally Posted by abousetta

It is preferred if you can upgrade to Office 2010 - 64 bit to allow your program more than the 2 GB cap set forth by 32-bit versions... that should take care of the memory bottleneck as long as you have enough memory. Then becomes the issue of processor speed and number of cores. I definitely prefer quad or more cores... speed is just that... speed. It will run faster with the more cores and the speed of each core. Hard disk space was never an issue with me but wouldn't put too much stress on that part, and to the best of my little knowledge on the matter the new SSD types make starting up frequently used files faster but do not make the processing time after faster once the file is opened. Now if you are opening and closing the same files over and over again then this might be an advantage.

Hope this helps.

abousetta

Thank you very much for your full reply....thanks also for suggesting the 64 bit operating system...can you please tell me more abotu that? is not the 32 bit Excel 2010 not capped by the memory limit any more? do you think the excel 2010 can utilize the power of ALL cores? thanks for the suggestion about the ssd memory...yes I will need to save and load these times many times through the day...update them...so you think this kind of disk can accelerate it immensely (which would accelerate the whole process very much!)