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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (21972)	12/8/2000 1:52:33 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<I updated my Dad's 233mhz (i think it was pentium mmx, but i'm not sure) to a duron 700, and the difference on the internet performance was huge (and he's got a 28.8 modem because his phone lines are bad and he can't use a 56k). He was going on for a half hour how he couldn't believe how much faster it was even though the modem speed didn't increase. He has probably 5-6 things running in the background plus 2-3 ie windows and 3 or 4 messenging services going at all times. In the upgrade, he also upgraded from a 1-2meg video board to a 32 meg geforce 2 mx, and went from 64 to 128 meg of ram, so those 2 things probably helped as well. > Based on all the posts I have seen on this topic so far, the difference people are seeing seems to be related primarily to display - newer graphics sub-system. In your dad's case it may also have a lot to do with the extra memory. This is not to say that the processor is not making the difference but to try to point to more likely reasons for the better experience. <I guess I'm surprised at the amount of people who say a 266 is good enough for anyone. > To be sure, that's not what I said(or anyone else on this thread as far as I remember). I said 233MMX is good enough for me for the time being. I also said I can see a lot of people feeling this way because there is no compelling reason to upgrade based on current applications. Now, this kind of thing is not a static phenomenon. If this Christmas and next year, digital cameras take off big time and people end up using a lot of digital editing tools on the PC, 2001 could fire up an upgrade cycle. The point here is that you need new applications to make your PC feel old. <I can see where you'd get used to it, but if you used an 800 for awhile you sure wouldn't want to go back. Just like a 56k modem isn't bad until you surf on cable/dsl for awhile. > No diasgreements here.