27 Apr 2003, 07:03, Tom Walker (1:202/1324), wrote to Matt Mc_carthy:

Hi Tom.

 ->> I also am on a 500MHz system, and it will likely provide me 
 ->> service for the remainder of my computing time, BUT, if I had a 
 ->> dumpster full of choices, I would think it wise to begin searching 
 ->> from the high end.

 TW> Actualy the one I personaly use is an even older AMD 200 with a 
 TW> Tyamn Tomcat MB. Althouhg I have a 1 Gig AMD almost ready to replace 
 TW> it. I have tested it a couple of times and really didn't see any 
 TW> difference in performance in what I do on the AMD 200        
 TW> YES it benchmarkes higher but who uses that type of CPU power in 
 TW> casual computer tasks, Internet, BBS'ing, and a little 
 TW> Wordprocessing???

Agreed!  It doesn't speed up my typing at all, but the errors are FAST!  :-)

     M.

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