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| Author: | okenobi [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ideas for budget upgrades |
3 desktop machines. Northwood Core 2.4ghz, on shuttle AV42 motherboards, with 256mb DDR, running XPSP3 (Home). Been denied funding for new desktops and a server for SBS03. May be able to get one new machine if I'm lucky. Is more RAM the only real answer without replacing these? Can't see anything else will work, and even then it may not be amazing. Thoughts? |
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| Author: | monkeyphonix [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for budget upgrades |
2.8 Northwood cores, more ram, faster hard drives ! They are skt 478 are they ? I don't know if those Mobos support anything over 2.8, but there are faster P4's on that Socket too. |
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| Author: | veato [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for budget upgrades |
In my experience XP on 256MB is barely usable. Upgrading to 512MB or 1GB on a desktop PC almost makes it feel shiny and new. |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for budget upgrades |
Max the RAM as much as you can afford. A clean build will also speed them up. Use the new machine for SBS |
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| Author: | Danstevens [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for budget upgrades |
Definitely max the RAM. If you've got budget left, probably look at the processors. |
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