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Is this PC good enough?
Name: acyf Date: June 15, 2005 at 20:07:25 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4 2.4C
Comment:
CPU: P3 500 RAM: 192MB HD: 10GB VGA: ATI Radeon 7000 OS: Win2k Pro
Is this system ok with basic office work and some light entertainment? Do you think it's worth the money to add another 256MB of PC133 to boost the performance?
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 15, 2005 at 21:50:13 Pacific
Reply:
That specification should be OK for office-type tasks and light entertainment, another things is SDRAM now going for more than DDR SDRAM and I see no reason for spending more on that rig.
Name: SkipCox Date: June 16, 2005 at 22:56:46 Pacific
Reply:
That's a good question phil; no need to bail. I happen to dual boot 98se and W2K Pro on the PIII 667 I linked to in my last reply. I can do old DOS stuff under 98se, run programs that won't run under W2K and have the stability of 2000...best of both worlds for older gaming, internet, and office applications. All at zero or very little cost; the latest and greatest isn't required for a good functional machine.
Summary: Ok. I have chosen and putting some deep consideration into this MOBO W/ CPU Combo......AMD XP 1800+ & Gigabyte GA-7VKMLS MB..........Chipset VIA KM266 North Bridge VIA 8233A(CE) South Bridge CPU...
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