Getting that new hardware itch...

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote inter alia:

>>Last year I replaced the K6-2 350 CPU in an old Compaq Presario with a
>>> K6-III+ 450.
>>> The Presario mobo can be jumpered to 550 mHz, but I am running the
>>> K6-III+ slightly overclocked at 500 mHz since there is only a passive
>>> heatsink on this system.  The heatsink does not get  hot even after
>>> recompiling a kernel.  Since the brain transplant was successful, I then
>>> added a Promise ATA100 IDE PCI card.  The combined upgrades, plus maxing
>>> the system memory out to 384 MB (the Presario will not use DIMM's
>>> greater than 128 MB) cost less than $200 and yielded a "lab rat" system
>>> that runs Linux 2.6 kernel and FreeBSD with more than acceptable
>>> alacrity.  It is also almost silent in operation and that was my design
>>> goal: a silent desktop with performance.
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>Can you play DVD's on this system?  Is it capable of playing games
>released in the past 2 years?  My point is, is it capable of doing
>anything other than light office suite work and basic web surfing?
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The upbrained K6-III+ system does not display DVD video because its onboard video (ATI Mach 64) is too slow and lacks memory.

It is intended to do work, not play games.  As I pointed out earlier, its main virtue is its silent operation, which is quite snappy for productivity applications.  FreeBSD performance is even snappier.
-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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