Hey, come on...it's a '96 Packard Bell, what'd you expect?;) What's even more pathetic is that it originally had a 166MHz Pentium-I (non-MMX) with no L2 cache at all...I added the L2 cache in like '97. I'm just impressed a modern OS runs on it so well. I imagine XP or even Win2K would be totally unusable.
I know a lot of folks are more interested in how FC3 runs on more modern hardware...but I have an old box from 1996 that has been upgraded to the below specs and I noticed a significant boost in overall performance in going from FC2 to FC3. I'm only a casual linux user, so I really have no explanation for the change; but it was welcome considering the age and limited capability of the old Packard Bell. I'm ashamed to even admit that's what it is...but oh well...we all had to start somewhere.;)
400MHz AMD K6-2 (Powerleap)
256MB L2 Cache
96MB RAM
8MB ATI Rage 3D PCI
13GB 33Mbps Maxtor HDD
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Ok a week later and I get this. I misstated, saying 256M rather than 256k. My bad.
Hey, come on...it's a '96 Packard Bell, what'd you expect? ;) What's even more pathetic is that it originally had a 166MHz Pentium-I (non-MMX) with no L2 cache at all...I added the L2 cache in like '97. I'm just impressed a modern OS runs on it so well. I imagine XP or even Win2K would be totally unusable.
I know a lot of folks are more interested in how FC3 runs on more modern hardware...but I have an old box from 1996 that has been upgraded to the below specs and I noticed a significant boost in overall performance in going from FC2 to FC3. I'm only a casual linux user, so I really have no explanation for the change; but it was welcome considering the age and limited capability of the old Packard Bell. I'm ashamed to even admit that's what it is...but oh well...we all had to start somewhere. ;)
400MHz AMD K6-2 (Powerleap)
256MB L2 Cache
96MB RAM
8MB ATI Rage 3D PCI
13GB 33Mbps Maxtor HDD