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Whoa! JUCK?!!! Let me tell you young man!I use a 386 (8mb ram 40 hz pentium and a 340 gig hard drive)daily.I am posting this reply on a 90mhz with 16 gs ram and a 650 hard drive running windows 95.I purchased both of these from "junk" stores in good working order.I use these machines insted of my athlon XP or duron or p3 for every day tasks because they are much faster and more reliable for storing inportant files.The only reson i would ever suggest someone has to have anything more that that is if they play new game( with i do:)Outher than that most things you would eer do,including internet,wont use 1/4 of your syste resoreses.
Now to answer the question.Yes you can.Although you might be limited to front bus speed adjustents,unless your motherboard supports voltage and multiplyer adjustents with jumpers or bios settings.You never can tell with older pc's.Especialy if it was a highend machine in its day.
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If your'e going to use old computers, at least use a 166 MHZ pentium with a 3GB Hard Drive and 32MB RAM. How can you get by with a 650MB hard drive and 16MB of ram? Windows 95B is faster than any version of windows if you just do basic things. That I can agree on.
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How do i get by with 650? Easy.I use this machie for web surffing,data entry and a wordprocesser mostly,I dont dowload music on this machine,I dont have a bunch of games on it(cept for duke nukem 2 and wolfstine 3d,lol),I clean the hard drive at least weekly (includig temp files),And windows 95 uses only about 150 mbs if you trim usless stuff.Not to mention you can still use that 3.5 floppy disk to keep files insted of your hard drive.I didnt mention my 116 mhz and k5 with 32 megs ram ad a 1.5 gig drive running win 98 second edition.I only wanted to see if it could do,it works fine though.As for widows 95 the fastest,Windows 3.1 boots on my 40hz 386 in under a 60 secs.MSDOS is even faster ;)
P.S. sorry about juck.My keyboard recently had a soda bath if you know what i mean.It dose strang things.lol
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thanks everyone. i havent recieved the computer yet but i think it is at least
100 MHz
40 MB Ram
1.08 Gig hard drive
network card
and 32x pioneer.
the harddrive is formatted
i am not wanting to run windows i was wanting to run linux which i have heard works pretty well on old pcs. anyway i already have several versions of linux and was wondering if i should install peanut linux on it with blackbox instead of KDE or GNOME.
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Glad to see someone interested in linux.I case you should wonder,It will run win 95 easly and win 98 with some trimming of the fat.good luck
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Well i use a cyrix 486 dx2 66. 32 meg 30pin ram...256k cache.. with original 340 meg hd nec and 1.7 gig seagate. 56 k isa modem(lol when it works)i usually use 33.k ex modem..although uarts are only 8550 on serial card that supports 4xide devices i run my 2 hard disks and cd rom off this.
lol outback australia modem speeds only 3.5 kbs at moment i have had downloads of 8 sometimes lol ((big)
i run win 98... motherboard is i think hsing tech.. company as usual since defunct.
i had to use seagates disk manager to allow me to use larger 1.7 gig hd. although bios picked up larger hd.. fdisk wouldnt go past 504 or 512 meg. umm tried to clock at 3x speed (i set mult jumper to act as 25mhz installed for 75 mhz no good)..hence my 33mhz attempted x3 for 99meg no good.. so as 66 im content.. also tried to put amd dx 4 100 mhz in but different voltage 3 volt stuffed that.i guess i havn't answered any questions but hope u lol had good read!! lol bye from me in australia.
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I have an old Toshiba Satellite T1960CS laptop which has a 486DX2-50MHz processor, 20MB of RAM, and a 200MB disk. Such a weak system (by today's standards) still manages to dual-boot Windows 95 and BasicLinux and run Microsoft Word and Excel smoothly. Junk?!
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Okay! Okay! Damn!!! I didn't know people still use those old computers and get something out of them. I've already tried 486's and they were slow with Windows 95 freshly installed, Why?
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