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[MicroSoft]

We have two computers that need to be upgraded to XP.

They both have PII 350 CPUs on DFI P2XBL & QDI BrillianX I/IS mother boards.
Memory will be upgraded to 128 or 512.

What has been the experience in running XP on a processor at this speed?

 

[Nick]

better think about better upgrades....

 

[Jim Macklin]

Slow, unsatisfactory for games or graphics... hardware often
won't run XP, hard drives often too small for XP and
applications.

Since you can buy a new Dell, with XP installed, with new XP
compatible hardware, CD-RW, etc for $400 or so, and it will
cost you at least $100 for each computer just to buy the XP
upgrade, think about the best use of your money and time.


| We have two computers that need to be upgraded to XP.
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| They both have PII 350 CPUs on DFI P2XBL & QDI BrillianX
I/IS mother boards.
| Memory will be upgraded to 128 or 512.
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| What has been the experience in running XP on a processor
at this speed?
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| Harvey
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[Wesley Vogel]

System Requirements for Windows XP Operating Systems
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314865

Windows XP Upgrade Advisor
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

 

[J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT]]

I actually have an old laptop at home with a PII 233MHZ processor and 160MB
of RAM and it is useable for surfing the web and doing email but nothing
processor extensive. It does run older apps like Links 98 surprisingly well
though, and I can load and use Office XP. If you upgrade to 512MB of RAM it
may not be half bad but don't be surprised if you find it too slow. A lot
depends on how you plan on using these systems.

--
J.C. Hornbeck, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

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We have two computers that need to be upgraded to XP.

They both have PII 350 CPUs on DFI P2XBL & QDI BrillianX I/IS mother
boards. Memory will be upgraded to 128 or 512.

What has been the experience in running XP on a processor at this
speed?

At 128MB, you will likely find them unsatisfactory for almost
everything. But if you go to 256MB or more, they will be on the
slow side, but usable. My wife runs Windows XP on a PII-400 with
256MB. It's certainly not a speed demon, but it's adequate for
her needs: E-mail, web surfing, light word processing.

 

[Plato]

We have two computers that need to be upgraded to XP.

They both have PII 350 CPUs on DFI P2XBL & QDI BrillianX I/IS mother boards.
Memory will be upgraded to 128 or 512.

What has been the experience in running XP on a processor at this speed?

You may run into hardware issues, driver issues, bios issues as well.
Also, you're going to need maybe more hard drive space.

 

[Alex Nichol]

We have two computers that need to be upgraded to XP.

They both have PII 350 CPUs on DFI P2XBL & QDI BrillianX I/IS mother boards.
Memory will be upgraded to 128 or 512.

What has been the experience in running XP on a processor at this speed?

It's pretty rock bottom, but adequate for straight forward things like
mail, news, word processing. Not if you are into Multimedia - that
would need a speed upgrade. A suggestion on RAM would be to add 256 as
one module. Provided it is well matched, the resulting 384 MB is quite a
good size, and should it not work with the existing 128, it would be
adequate on its own, and could be upgraded with a matching one if it
turned out that that was actually necessary. In the sort of workload I
mentioned 512 straight off would probably be overkill