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Uograde from P3 to P4
Name: marap Date: August 13, 2009 at 17:31:53 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Product: Ibm / R4ewpne2 Subcategory: RAM
Comment:
It is Pentium 3. Is this worth upgrading to Pentium 4 with XP
Name: jefro Date: August 13, 2009 at 17:47:20 Pacific
Reply:
I doubt it.
Even a cheap Atom beats the pants off any P4 would be my guess. Atom boards complete are less than $100.
An AMD Athlon II 250 smokes and costs $73 or so. (course you'd need a new mb ram and maybe a powersupply.)
Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)
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Response Number 2
Name: marap Date: August 13, 2009 at 18:07:36 Pacific
Reply:
Like the first part.
Should I just throw the Laptop away???
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Response Number 3
Name: larryf215 Date: August 13, 2009 at 18:29:11 Pacific
Reply:
no! how much ram does it have? A P3 will have no trouble with XP, depending on the amount of ram.
larry
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Response Number 4
Name: marap Date: August 13, 2009 at 18:53:21 Pacific
Reply:
It has 128kb. Harddisk capacity 27 GB. I intended to install xp
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Response Number 5
Name: MWCC Date: August 13, 2009 at 21:59:17 Pacific
Reply:
Leave it on Windows 2000, sell it and put the money towards a new Laptop......
To answer you question you can not upgrade from P3 to P4 without changing hardware!
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Response Number 6
Name: marap Date: August 14, 2009 at 00:16:47 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks.If I upgrde the H/W- RAM to 256kb Harddisk to 80GB. Is this suufficient to install xp.
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Response Number 7
Name: Mattwizz3 (by mattwizz3) Date: August 14, 2009 at 02:27:51 Pacific
Reply:
XP should run OK on 256MB but its preferable to have 512MB. I used to have a P3 laptop which was 1.13GHz/512MB and it was quite snappy under XP, a great PC for general use.
Name: Cobra_R Date: August 14, 2009 at 05:35:42 Pacific
Reply:
I agree i'd throw in at least 512mb and upgrade the hard drive to 60gb. Anything lower then 512mb of ram now of days is going to choke out your system really fast. Heck Windows Live messenger requires 128mb of ram.
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