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General Question about Compaqs?
Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are
anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry |
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Anything is better than what you have.
"Larry" wrote in message ... Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry |
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AMD has gotten pretty close to Intel,a close second,I'd say.And they are
considerably less expensive. "Larry" wrote in message ... Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry |
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I just bought a Presario S5200CL with an Athlon XP 2600. It's faster than
the 2.53GHz P4 I had before. The integrated GeForce 4 video is nice, too. HH "Larry" wrote in message ... Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry |
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Larry wrote in
: Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry Thanks for the help. Hp is long on the tooth may just use it for storage. Larry |
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Larry wrote:
Larry wrote in : Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. Thanks Larry Thanks for the help. Hp is long on the tooth may just use it for storage. Larry Use it for a print server, convert to Linux and use it for a firewall/print server. It might be old, but many of these functions don't require massive CPU power. Q |
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Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are
anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. I got the S6300NX a couple of weeks ago. Good power fast and efficient but I have noted 2 shortcomings; the modem has only 1 line port so you cannot connect a phone downstream. Incredidibly chintzy and shortsighted. The OMB video is not well supported The Gamester Gamester's Homepage http://members.aol.com/wergames (I am not a commie merely a Trotskyite revisionist) |
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I have the same computer. I was also surprised about the lack of a phone
port. Easily solvable with a $3.00 phone splitter, but still seems a bit chintzy on a mid-level computer. Of course many people today have broadband (including me), but I also maintain dial-up service as a backup. Not sure what you mean by the video isn't well supported, but I found it interesting that the Serene Screen screensaver freezes up on my this computer with 64 MB shared video, while their is no problem on my daughter's computer; a 4 year old 350MHz Pentium 2 with a separate (4MB) video card. The one saving grace is the AGP slot on the mother board, so I suspect I will eventually upgrade the video. No real rush since I am not a "gamer". Otherwise the computer has performed flawlessly, and I am most happy with it. My last computer was a 450MHz, AMD K6-2, NEC. I was very happy with it for the 4 years I owned it, so I sought out an AMD processor again this time around. "The human adventure is just beginning" "Gamester" wrote in message ... Looking at compaq's with the AMD chip and i am wondering if they are anygood or not?.I have only had pentium HP8275 p2 300mhz. I got the S6300NX a couple of weeks ago. Good power fast and efficient but I have noted 2 shortcomings; the modem has only 1 line port so you cannot connect a phone downstream. Incredidibly chintzy and shortsighted. The OMB video is not well supported The Gamester Gamester's Homepage http://members.aol.com/wergames (I am not a commie merely a Trotskyite revisionist) |
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Of course many people today have broadband (including me), but I also
maintain dial-up service as a backup. I have AOL for the web space. $8US for 280M with unlimited bandwidth is not too bad. Not sure what you mean by the video isn't well supported, I only play 2 games. Half-Life and Age of Empire. I picked up Age of Mythology when momsies upgraded last fall. Plays fine on hers. Got the Compaq, uninstalled AOM and brought it home. Set up fine. Hit the play icon: This graphics card is no supported by Age of Mythology Video Card 0: vtdisp.dll VIA/S3G KM400/KN400 Vendor(0x1106) Device(0x7205) For those not in the know, Age of Mythology is by MicroSoft. If MS does not support your video card, in my book, it is not well supported. I'll stress once again that the machine has been performing well. My last comp had the CDrom replaced within a week of purchase. Win 95/98 OS wundercrap. Still, I managed with it for almost 6 years of crashes, freezes, BSD etc. The Gamester Homepage http://members.aol.com/wergames (I'm not a commie merely a Trotskyite revisionist) |
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