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Over-Clocked: Building & Testing Extreme Machines for Legal Technologists

By Barry Wheeler posted 03-23-2017 11:17

  

Legal Technology professionals are often assigned projects with an “ASAP” deadline, and in those circumstances, speed and efficiency matter. Shaving time off of projects sometimes means the difference between making, or missing, a deadline. Considering that most tasks assigned to Legal Technologists involve waiting on computers to process, transfer, or handle data in some way, it’s logical to assume that faster computers would mean less waiting, and consequently, faster results.

So it makes sense to compare the performance of high-end hardware to the standard equipment that firms typically assign their end users – even if only to satisfy a curiosity: how much faster is it? Many firms already spec up the hardware for Legal Technologists, but many others do not, opting instead to issue the same model of computer to all staff. This paper will explore the process of speccing, building, and testing an over-clocked computer against a typical, “standard-issue” computer that most firms assign to users. This paper isn’t a comprehensive guide to building computers, nor is it a scientific comparison of hardware. Its purpose is to serve as a basic guide for choosing hardware and custom-building a computer, as well as to answer the question that Legal Technologists have often posed: “How much faster is that faster computer?”

Please see the document attached to read more!

Over-Clocked_Building_and_Testing_Extreme_Machines_for_Legal_Technologists.pdf

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