Hardware upgrade

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:16:14PM -0600, MHeinrich at genencor.com took 90 lines to write:
> I've finally decided to upgrade my K2-300 to a newer model.  The barebones 
> system I am looking at has:
> 
> Case w/430 W PS
> Asus MB - A7N8X
> AMD XP 2700+
> 512 MB DDR400
> 7 in 1 card reader
> Lite On CDRW 52/32/52
> and a video card: 
> 
> MSI GEFORCE FX5200-TD 128MB DDR 8XAGP or
> FX GEFORCE MX 4000 128MB DDR AGP 8X or
> ABIT RADEON 9200SE-DT 128MB DDR 8XAGP

I'd probably opt for the Radeon card simply because ATI plays nicer with
FOSS than NVIDIA. Other than that, I'd get more RAM. Given the cost of RAM
these days, it's probably the best single upgrade you can buy in terms of
the performance:cost ratio.

Kurt
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