{"id":2123,"date":"2013-09-01T18:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2022-05-14T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:19:34","slug":"what-can-a-computer-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/what-can-a-computer-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"What can a computer handle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With me hosting my own website and files, I&#8217;ve been asking a lot lately from my tiny old home PC.It&#8217;s custom configuration of Windows 7 Home Premium, 4GB Ram, Quad Core AMD CPU and a Western Digital Raptor Hard Drive.\u00a0This got me thinking enough to ask the question, how much is too much. What can a computer handle exactly?<\/p>\n<p>Currently this PC is running at 90% memory usage, and 100% CPU usage. 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