brianw
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Posted: July 16 2006,18:29 |
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May have more to do with the speed of the CD (if booting from CD but this is the HD forum so I am going to assume it is a regular HD install) than the CPU.
Could be the motherboard as well. If the video ram is shared and many things are on the motherboard (i.e. built in video, sound, nic, modem, etc...) a system will be slower than one with cards doing the processing (video card with it's own memory is more powerful than one with built in video). Does the boot code dma help? If you run the cd boot with the toram boot option what is the performance like (if this is a frugal install try toram as well, could point to the HD speed as the problem)?
Could be the hard drive is a bottle neck. Try to get a benchmark utility and see what it has to say.
I use a 266Mhz laptop with 96M ram and a regular HD install and I get pretty good performance (unless I start trying to play graphics intense games). On the other hand our 133 Panasonic cf-25 toughbook 24M ram is just as slow running any OS as our compaq 486 16M ram.
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