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How far will this PC get me?
quarterback:
--- Quote from: USSEnterprise on December 13, 2005, 10:49:15 am ---Call me crazy, but for a long time, I had XP Pro running on a PII 300 w/ 64 RAM and it ran fine
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You're crazy. :)
MaximRecoil:
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--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on December 13, 2005, 03:35:04 am ---
--- Quote ---I wouldn't even think about running XP with less than 2GHz and 512M of memory.
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DrewKaree:
Hey Krick, just wanted to let you know that at least one person here (myself) understood what you were saying and didn't ass-hat-sume you were giving us hard and fast rules here. I also didn't get my panties in a twist thinking you were quoting the processor bible either when you gave us your PREFERENCES of what you'd run.
Amazing what you get out of a post when you simply read it for what it's worth instead of what you feel you're being "told" ::)
RayB:
ON a 1ghz, you may have to turn off triple buffering and wait for vsync to get alot of games running at full frame rate. (v.78)
You can drop back to v .55 for faster performance, but then you get the nag screens in those.
krick:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on December 13, 2005, 02:13:59 pm ---
Hey Krick, just wanted to let you know that at least one person here (myself) understood what you were saying
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Thanks for your support. :)
If you only have a 1GHz CPU, and your goal is to run an application that is very CPU hungry (and sometimes memory hungry depending on the game), it just doesn't make sense to use a resource intensive operating system.
Heck for a 1GHz MAME machine, I was originally going to suggest running DOS instead.
But since Win 98SE includes DOS 7, you always have that option.