re: Cluster size survey, check your computer now!
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 1:23 am
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Posted by Steve
(19550 messages posted)
The 3D gaming industry is what drives the move to fast
computers. For non gamers, and I'm taking about the
3rd person 3D shooting games mostly, a Computer like yours and mine 1 gig PC is perfect.
The only reason the
computer manufactures put XP on this new fast hardware, is because that is what
is being sold now, not
because XP won't run good on PC 100 ram and a 1 gig
PIII. The computer hardware industry dosen't stand still.
XP has most the drivers built into it, the occasional sound
card or scanner can sometimes be a problem, but I have
found just a search on Google will most of the time turn up drivers that work. My
scanner wouldn't work on XP, but the manufacture of the scanner said it would work
with
Win 2000 drivers ,if one followed their installation instructions. It wound up working
great. I just built a new
Box for my Dad to replace his old 400MHZ PC. He just
does email ,solitare, and likes voice chating on messenger
with a few friends, so since new old computer stock is
so inexpensive I built a 1.2 gig athlon with 256 MB of
PC 100 ram, a onbord video, and sound , and 8X
CDRW rom for a couple hundred US bucks, and installed
XP. I have been burning the computer in now for a month
to make sure it runs well. The motherboard and most the hardware I'm sure of is a
few years old vintage, though it was still new, and XP found drivers for all the
hardware during the install. I have decided not to even add another stick of ram,
this computer doesn't need the added ram the way this computer is going to be used.
So I would
think about doing the switch to XP. Bet you would have
few problems to overcome during the install.
On Monday, July 12, 2004 at 11:52 pm, Mac wrote:
>Free MS Update
CD
>Thank you Steve,
>
>All you tell me rather destroys the idea that people need to spend a lot of money
>on new equipment.
>
>This computer is an OEM install. How should people go about getting all of the necessary
>drivers from their old system to put on their new XP installation?
>
Mac
>
>WINDOWS HELP
>HREF="http://www.crucial.com">RAM
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