On 2013-08-03 22:09, Federico Leoni wrote: > Little OT: > Lucky day today! I gained an old pc from a customer, was equipped with > a Pentium D 945 (one of the first Intel dual core on the market, > 3.4ghz with 2x2MB cache) with 2gb ram and 160gb hdd. Motherboard dead. > I put ram and processor on my old-but-good Dell Gx620 and worked fine. > Now I have 4GB installed but I can see just 3,2gb due to limitation of > the chipset, know issue even on x64 systems. Before was a P4 3Ghz with > "just" 2Gb ram. > Tested a 1080p video and was smooth even without my Nvidia card: CPUs > never passed 70%. > Lubuntu is generally more responsive now and the difference when I use > Windows XP on a VirtualBox is HUGE (need for my work), thanks to more > ram available too. Anyway not bad for a 2006 cpu gained for free! :) > > http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-D-945-vs-Intel-Pentium-4-531 > > An happy weekend for sure! :D > > F. > Congratulations :-)
I'm glad that old hardware is made useful with Lubuntu. Nio -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
