HD INSTALL

Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD INSTALL
started by: Kevin Garside

Posted by Kevin Garside on July 16 2006,15:02

Which boot option is best for an old 333MHZ processor with 256MB of RAM I can get the DSL to perform wonderfully on my old 400MHZ but not the 333MHZ processor.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 16 2006,16:39

What's the difference in performance?

I have used processors ranging from 333mhz to 450mhz and the DSL livecd seems to load pretty much the same on all of them.

Posted by brianw on July 16 2006,18:29

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.