RE: FN-FORUM: XP Performance

date posted 18th August 2003 15:10

My partner is happly running XP Pro on a Dell Laptop, it's a Pentium III
700 with only 256MB, and its running IIS,PHP & MySQL as well as the
usual apps. It's a bit slow to boot, but you should be fine with 512MB

Not sure about overclockin the 800 to 1gig, you'd need pretty good
cooling and have to adjust FSB I think.

Chaz..


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sampson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 18 August 2003 15:23
> To: Charles E. Gatenby
> Subject: FN-FORUM: XP Performance
>
>
>
> I'm finally upgrading the old beast I have in front of me
> from a PII 233
> (running at 500) to a PIII 800 - no charge to myself seeing
> as I am flat
> broke.
> It'll have at LEAST a 40Gb HDD, and at least 512 Ram in it (Normal SD
> PC100 - about all I have lying around!) maybe a bitmore
> depending on what I
> have in boxes in the house.
>
> I wanna know how reliably XP Home and XP pro are liable to
> run with that
> Spec.
> Normal stuff running'll be
> Flash, Fireworks, Freehand, Dreamweaver (all MX), Photosohop
> 6 and 7 , maybe
> Illustrator 10. Apache with PHP and mySQL as local
> development, and Swift 3D
> as the work titles, and then a few games like UO and Warcrft
> 3, Diablo II
> etc.
>
> Any advice is welcomed.
> And the other thing - depending on the machne itself - can
> you usually OC an
> 800 to 1Gig?
>