[PLUG] Real-life hardware comparison.

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Fri Apr 16 16:31:01 UTC 2004


OK, so I've got this tax return and I'm moving to a new home that has
minimal move-in costs and so I'm getting back my obscene deposits from the
criminal userer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H landlord and so I'll have some cash that
just might get diverted into finally updating my lame workstation.

I've got a really decent dual PIII motherboard and a gig of PC133 SDRAM
but a single rather pathetic processor on the board.

I could just max out the motherboard with procs that fit.  I think the
best I could do would be a pair of PIII 1.3GHz things and another gig of
RAM.

OR I could go with something on the middley-end of what's current (because
I'll need new motherboard, power supply likely, as well as processors and
memory).

Is the new fast bus stuff really that much faster?  Is it really
worthwhile to have DDR memory and a single 2GHz processor over the
maxed-out system I could have for much less money?

Thanks.
J.
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