04 Nov 2003, 17:39, Pascal Schmidt (1:153/401.2), wrote to Charles Angelich:

Hi Pascal.

 JB>>> If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many)
 JB>>> with the money you save on ram swap can be good. 

 CA>> Possibly. But at some point you lose the option to double CPU
 CA>> speed. 

 PS> Well, two times the CPU power is worth absolutely nothing if your 
 PS> system is forced to swap stuff in and out all the time. You lose 
 PS> quite a lot of performance by having to wait for the hard disk. 
 PS> Going to disk is easily worth thousands of machine cycles on GHz 
 PS> CPUs.

Agreed!  First step in any 'upgrade' is to add RAM to the max allowed by
either the MB or the OS.  Beyond that, replace the old PIO HD with a modern
fast one and a UDMA-133 controller to go with it.  Old 100 to 500 MHz CPUs
will take on a new life.

     Good luck...  M.

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