Hardware upgrade

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
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>>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:16:14PM -0600, MHeinrich at genencor.com took 90 lines to write:
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>>>I've finally decided to upgrade my K2-300 to a newer model.  The barebones
>>>system I am looking at has:
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>>>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:
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>>>MSI GEFORCE FX5200-TD 128MB DDR 8XAGP or
>>>FX GEFORCE MX 4000 128MB DDR AGP 8X or
>>>ABIT RADEON 9200SE-DT 128MB DDR 8XAGP
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>>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.
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>I agree with Kurt on this.  Go with at least 1GB of RAM and you'll
>appreciate it.  You might also want to go with a faster CPU.  That 2700 is
>getting a bit long in the tooth these days.  If your budget allows, you
>might want to even consider an Athlon64.
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The extra RAM is great if you run any sort of virtual machine... I'm 
running VMWARE because I refuse to have to reboot to windows and the 
extra RAM is rather necessary