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To: Zeddie88 who wrote (8844)	9/22/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

PII 400Mhz machine with Windows '98 1st edition and IE5. I am connecting to the internet via a cable modem and typically have download speeds of approximately 250Mb/s. System performance indicates that I am running with about 60% of my System Resources free. Does your machine seem slow? What makes you think it is slow? PII 400 and 128 MB RAM and cable modem should be pretty quick. Is the machine quick when it is not connected to the Internet? I can not speak from specific experience...I have a dial up connection and I do not have real time quotes and graphs...however I can guess<g> First..you did not tell us about your harddrive. If you are running near full you could have a speed issue. With 128 MB RAM you should have at least 250 MB+ harddrive space available for harddrive paging. Do you hear any harddrive activity? Do you see the harddrive light go on during slow times? Is the machine consistently slow or does it slow down only sometimes? Or is it a fast machine and you just want to make it faster?? If it is the later..ie a fast machine you want to make faster...I have my money on your processor. With data coming in at 250 MB sec..it has to go some where and it has to be processed into graphs etc. This takes CPU power. I think a PII 400 can keep up with a 56k modem data feed but dealing with a 250 MB/sec stream of data requires significant processing power. You would probably have to upgrade to a 550 or 600 to notice an improvement. $600 for a PIII 600 seems a bit pricey to me. Going from 400 to 550 hardly seems worth the effort. IMO if you want a serious performance increase in a cable modem machine that does a lot of multitasking you should think about using NT and dual processors. A pair of PIII 500s and 256MB RAM would probably be a significant upgrade to your existing machine. IMO you would be wasting your money adding RAM or a video card to your existing machine...and ??? the harddrive. Zeuspaul

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