RE: FN-FORUM: XP Performance

date posted 18th August 2003 15:40

I'm not runnin the firewall on it as its behind a NAT Router and
Hardware Firewall.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sampson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 18 August 2003 16:03
> To: Charles E. Gatenby
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: XP Performance
>
>
>
> Boot up times arent a problem, I tun it on on the morning and
> then make a
> cofee while thats happening anyway!
>
> And while Im on the subject - you can turn off that buggy
> firewall in it
> cant you?
> Personally I would prefer to use my copy of 2k, but the
> 'wife' cant use it
> very well, and XP may be a bit easier for her :)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles E.Gatenby" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:42 PM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: XP Performance
>
>
> |
> | 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?
> | >
> |
> |
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