What type of hardware are you using?

[Scott T. Hildreth]

Well, I couldn't help myself.  I bought a new board and Celeron D
2.93 GHz last night.  Only $60 after rebates, figured I couldn't
go wrong for that price.  Will put it in this weekend, that should
eliminate the slowness....I hope :-).


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:36 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:32 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > 
> >>Get an SMP machine when you upgrade. It will cost more but it will feel 
> > 
> >   Yeah, I thought about that, I may just go the cheaper route right now.
> 
> keep the money in your wallet for the moment. I worked recently with a 
> Pentium IV running at something above 3 GHz. The machine felt so slow 
> even under low load.
> 
> I use to upgrade since decades to leading edge hardware and keep it for 
> a pretty long time. This saves me some money and a lot of time on the 
> long term.
> 
> I then get the itch when new hardware comes to the market. As long as 
> the itch does not get to bad, I stick with the old one. The current one 
> I got 2001.
> 
> Erich
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth at allantgroup.com>