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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Legacy hardware support in openSUSE 10.3
From:       Per Jessen <per () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2009-06-16 16:17:45
Message-ID: h18gj9$ab5$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:18 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2009/06/16 15:42 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
>> IIRC that motherboard supports PIII up to 800 MHZ at 100FSB with the
>> stock BIOS, faster with a special BIOS. Graphics performance from a
>> PCI gfxcard with a 350MHz CPU might not be acceptable. If that turns
>> out to be the case, I'd try to pick up a faster CPU and/or an AGP 1
>> (or 2 I think, but not 4 up) card to use with it. Those common legacy
>> parts should be available dirt cheap or free many places, eBay or
>> local computer shops that haven't thrown away all the old stuff. PIII
>> CPUs require a different cooler configuration than PII.
> 
> Even those "dirt cheap" prices, once you gather
> CPU+RAM+Video+Shipping, seem insane as a proportion of the cost of a
> new and *MUCH* faster and more stable machine.

Earlier this year I bought a couple of Dell desktops - 2.5GHz Celeron,
512Mb RAM, 40Gb harddrive - SFr40 a piece.  I added another 512Mb per
box to have decent office machines.  Thank you Windows Vista.


/Per


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