Re: FN-FORUM: XP Performance

date posted 18th August 2003 19:24

i'm running on a p3 450, overclocked to 504, 388mem and a geforce 2, running
at 1600x1024 / 32 , runs fine, XP (home and pro, they both the same minus
the IIS on the home, but can be done with a bit of searching about) is more
memory intentive in that it needs 128 at least, and 256 makes it run a fair
more smoother, but 388 makes it run fairly smooth, so your 512 will be
perfect, more memory the better, more ya can put in there the better your
machine will run. (in one sense)

Programs i have running pretty much 24/7 are : photoshop / textpad / sql /
apache / php.

Games wise, you arnt gonna stand a chance with any new games on a machine
like that, mine can barely run the games that came out a year ago with any
decent settings on it, can if i put it on fully down on everything, but then
it just doesnt look nice :)

What you got there is a development machine and nada else, Diablo2 / UO will
run fine, Warcraft 3 will be ok, althrough online wise its gonna strugle a
fair bit on big battles (online) gimmie a shout if you can run warcraft3
with your new machine online in big battles, if ya can i'll go out and buy
it tommorow :).

Warcraft 3 wise i was on a modem at the time i tried it, so thats prolly
most of the reason for the slow down on big battles.

As for the overclocking, aint done it on anything higher than what i got
here, but i guessing you proberly could, although you prolly be under 1gig,
and would need some extra cooling.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sampson" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:23 PM
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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