Getting that new hardware itch...

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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?
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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.

I hate to keep beating this dead horse, but if your definition of
'productivity appliations' = office suite, then that's a rather limited
usage scenario.  In my line of work, productivity applications would never
run on the hardware that you're advocating.  I use an office suite
once/month.

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Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
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