On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 03:22 +0530, A. Mani wrote:
> The question was also about the price. If you want to reduce the risk of
> hardware problems, the best would be to go for a low-end P4 (DDR) with a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 1.6-2.0Ghz celeron. CRT monitors have long lives. New P3s cost about the
> same as low-end P4s(400FSB...).
???? Didn't quite get you ! How do you combine a low end P4 with a
Celeron. Besides Celerons have a measly 64 KB L2 cache, lower than their
L1 caches (128 K, IIRC). Then again, low end P4 mobos are not likely to
have AGP slots, and the inbuilt 845G is not exactly a decent performer,
personally speaking, I'd rather have a VIA graphics chip than an Intel
one.
Who wants to buy new P3s ?? Do they sell P3s anymore ? Intel certainly
doesn't make P3s anymore. (Intel's P3 fabs now make Centrino procs) I
wanted to say that for such comparatively lightweight tasks, a P3 700
MHz would be adequate. Instead I believe the computer would be more
responsive if more RAM and a discrete graphics card were put in. P3 700
Mhz machines are probably available for 6.5 K from the used computer
dealers. Spend a couple of Ks for additional RAM and a Geforce 2 (even
32 MB VRAM ones would do nicely) and you'd have a nice roaring machine
for watching movies at less than Rs.10K/-.
Don't remember seeing any ads for P4 machines selling at that price. :)
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