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Name: mediamistro
Date: May 21, 2005 at 05:17:00 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp
OS: Windows Xp Home SP2
CPU/Ram: 2.4Ghz Celeron 512Mb 133

Comment:

I Making A OLD AT System For My Friend To Upgrade His Machine Is This Spec Ok
Intel Pentium 3 450Mhz
256MB PC133 SDRAM 2X64 1X128
20GB Western Digital Hard Drive
52X LG CD-ROM Drive
1.44MB Floppy Drive
PCCHIPS M726 Motherboard
Onboard Sound,PS2,USB VIA Bracket
Primary Graphics Card All-In-Wonder RAGE 128 PRO 32MB
Secondary Graphics Card 4MB Permedia 2
Blaster
56K MODEM PCI (Disabled)
Wireless Ethernet (Broadband)
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Office 2003 PRO
Norton 2004 Anti-Virus
Microsoft Anti Spyware
Other Programs
Is This Good Or Not?
Opions Welcome! :

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Response Number 1

Name: jam
Date: May 21, 2005 at 05:36:33 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp

Reply: (edit)

It's an old machine...what would you like us to say about it? It'll work & as long as your friend doesn't expect to do anything too heavy with it, it'll be fine. I'd recommend Win98SE instead WinXP.
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro

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Response Number 2

Name: Lizette
Date: May 21, 2005 at 05:51:26 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp

Reply: (edit)

It's enough...if you don't mind waiting 20 second per mouse click
Intel P4 3.2E Ghz@ 3.8Ghz
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Kingston 2GB PC3200 D-Channel
Asus AX800 Pro w/Zalman Zalman ZM80D-HP
WD Caviar 160 GB
WD Raptor 37 GB
Zalman Reserator 1

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Response Number 3

Name: SkipCox
Date: May 21, 2005 at 09:21:22 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp

Reply: (edit)

It'll work just fine with 98se...some comments:
"I Making A OLD AT System"
It's an ATX system.
"56K MODEM PCI (Disabled)"
Why disable it...use it to fax stuff.
"Windows XP Home Edition SP2"
98se or dual boot 98se and Win2000.
"Office 2003 PRO"
Office 97Pro or Office 2000Pro
Ditch Norton in favor of the free AVG, add either Kerio 2.1.5 or ZoneAlarm for the firewall, and use Spybot, AdAware, SpywareBlaster for your security.
Friends have similar machines with half the memory and crappier video cards that run just fine on 98se. My folding rig is 98se/W2KPro dual boot, PIII667/256Mb PC133 stuffed in an old emachines case and runs office2000pro just fine.
Finally, why the Permedia video card? Aren't most of those for CAD running under NT4.0?
Skip

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Response Number 4

Name: RichGu
Date: May 21, 2005 at 13:05:22 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp

Reply: (edit)

Go with Windows 2000, you'll be glad you did.
RichGu
Win XP Pro - SP2
P4 3.2 / 768 self built

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Response Number 5

Name: NT_Mike
Date: May 22, 2005 at 16:59:01 Pacific
Subject: Is this enough for xp

Reply: (edit)

XP should run ok, a little slow but it will go.
I've had xp run on much worse and it ran fine, a pentium 1 233 with 96MB ram, lol. If you install it and turn off all the fancy eye candy and unneeded services, it should run great. I recommend windows 2000 or windows ME for that machine for best performance.

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