Re: Which is the better CPU? Socket 7
- From: "Clint" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:45:39 GMT
Personally, and since you're asking for opinions, I don't think it will
matter too much. It's kind of like asking someone if they'd like to be
poked in the eye with a metal rod or a pointy stick. Either one's gonna
hurt like a bugger after using anything close to a modern computer. At
best, you're looking at something that runs at 10% of current machine's
speeds, and the difference between the two processors will probably be 10%
of that.
In any case, it's hard to physically kill hardware using software, but I'm
sure it's possible. Likely some driver got corrupted/deleted, or some BIOS
setting got mucked. Or if you go back far enough, you've got some sort of
IRQ conflict...
Clint, who came from the era of smokin' 12MHz 286 processors...
"Larry Roberts" <skin-e@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A guy at my brother's job wants to install a soundcard into
his very old PC. It's a Compaq 2260 desktop. Most of these guys don't
know anything about computers, and the most modern system I've worked
on so far was an Intel Celeron 2Ghz based Notebook a few years ago.
Most are Win98 based systems.
I haven't recieved the system from him yet, but looking at the
specs. on Compaq's website, it says it has sound. I'm thinking the
guy, or family members flubbered the OS up, and killed the sound, and
he thinks it physically broke. Anyway, I noticed the system uses a
Cyrix MII 300 CPU. It runs at 233Mhz. I have some Intel Pentium 233Mhz
MMX cpus sitting around. Which would be better? I'm thinking the Intel
would be more stable.
.
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