[plug] [OT] Looking for cheap P4

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:37, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > Interesting because I run Debian sid on a Celery 1.7
> 
> P4 Celeron 1.7GHz? The "upgraded" Celeron that is slower than a 1.3GHz 
> PIII Celeron?
> 

True? I didn't know that... seems to be running quite well but this
probably isn't a machine I would play Doom3 on.


> > with KDE 3.2
> > (hasn't been upgraded to 3.3 yet due to some KDE apps) and it runs much
> > better than Windows XP on some Pentium ~2.4ghz or so machines I know.
> 
> I must admit that when working on our XP box at work (TNT2, AMD Duron 
> 1GHz) I find myself thinking "Gee, I can watch the windows redraw just 
> like on a Linux X11 desktop..."
> 
> As for the OP: Considered picking up a cheap Athlon and motherboard? A 
> basic board can be had for $90 and a CPU for ... uggh, what happened to 
> CPU prices? I bought my Athlon 2800+ for less than the "Sempron" 2600+ 
> is going for now. Forget I said anything.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
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