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Thread ID: 51041 2004-11-10 01:33:00 OT: Desparately seeking AMD Duron 1.4Ghz 200Mhz FSB chiefnz (545) Press F1
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289959 2004-11-10 18:01:00 Sorry I forgot to post the current system specs:

AMD Duron 1Ghz CPU
128MB PC133 SD RAM
20GB hard drive
nVidia Riva TNT 2 M64 Graphics card 32MB
Via onboard audio controller
Windows XP Home.

Interestingly enuff it HAD NO SP's installed and the system seemed quite ok, but ran really slow due to the low 128MB RAM in use.

cheers

chiefnz
chiefnz (545)
289960 2004-11-10 19:26:00 why are you bothering to update a 1.0GHz Duron? I doubt a 50+ couple would do anything intensive enough to notice the difference between that and a 1.5GHz Duron. Spend the money on more ram, it will be far more noticable. Pete O'Neil (250)
289961 2004-11-10 19:35:00 Ya,I would agree with what Pete said,Rather then a cpu just Whack as much ram in that beasty as you can buy,find,steal..... metla (154)
289962 2004-11-10 20:37:00 Socket 462 & socket A are the same thing. My original thought, was that you had no CPU, and needed one to fit that MB. Not worth upgrading, unless you go up to at least a XP2200 (runs at 1800) I also put a new 7200 HD in and reasonable improvement in overall speed.
Bye
Peter H (220)
289963 2004-11-11 04:56:00 Ok thanks for that guys.

I was intending to increase the RAM to 640MB and upgrade the hard drive to 40GB 7200rpm Seagate drive. I've also applied SP2 and that seems to have helped a bit as well.

cheers

chiefnz
chiefnz (545)
289964 2004-11-11 06:31:00 I've had problems with Win98 & WinME using over 512mb POTUS (5276)
289965 2004-11-11 07:23:00 > I've had problems with Win98 & WinME using over 512mb


Yes Win98 in standard form does not support more than 512MB... there is patch however to fix this problem. I"m not sure if the same is true for Win ME though.

cheers

chiefnz

PS: incidently the Pavilion Pc is running Wind XP Home
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