James Newburrie wrote:

>Well - I think that I prefer Gigabyte with AMD - in my experience (admitidly 
>mostly with Microsoft based networks) they are more stable.  I freely admit 
>that I have only been using linux solidly for the past couple of months - and 
>I am using a simple distribution, Mandrake 8.1 in my AMD K6-500 based 
>system), but I have noticed something, there seems little point in buying the 
>fastest processor around at the expense of overkilling RAM.
>
256M on a P350.   Open Office builds twice as fast as with 128Meg.   No 
other changes.  I can now use Mozilla easily while compiling.  At $70 
for 256M this really is the cheapest and fastest upgrade I have done.

KenF


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