Yes ... but you guys overlooked this part of my post inre my home system that has the old 478 Pentium and the RAMBUS memory:
szhosain wrote:... it is fast enough for what I typically use it for.
My other computers (I have four systems on my large desk right now as I type this) are :
1. A Dell Latitude 820 laptop. Has an nVidia Quadro 120M graphics card (1920x1200 on a 15.4" wide-screen display), a 2.16GHz Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor, 80GB 7200 rpm drive, 2GB of DDR2 667MHz ram.
2. An Alienware MJ-12 laptop. Has a nVidia 6800Plus (1920x1200 on a 17" screen wide-screen display), a 3.8GHz Pentium 4, 120GB using two 60GB 7200 disks in a RAID 0 configuration (on a laptop!), 2GB of DD2 667MHz ram.
(Both of the above are connected to a Dell 24" LCD ...)
3. A Sun Microsystems Ultra-45 with 4GB of DDR2 ram, 250GB of 7200 rpm disk drive, etc., etc., etc. This system is connected to my department server which is a 4 processor, 32 core Sun Microsystems server with 16GB of memory, a few Terabytes of 10,000 drives, etc., etc.
4. A Dell Dimension of some sort. Has a 3.06GHz Dual-core Intel Pentium, 2GB of ram, 250GB of 7200 rpm disk, etc. I forget the graphics card.
Point is that I have plenty of fast systems at work to do whatever I need to do. I also usually take one of the two laptops home each evening and dock it into my home network (Gigabit network, anotehr 24" Dell monitor, etc.).
So ... upgrading my personal, old 478 based Pentium 4 to something much faster is simply not needed. I only use it for word processing, Excel, e-mail, Quicken, taxes and the like. For this, the 2GB of RAMBUS memory is perfectly fine.
The only reason I am changing the graphics card is because the current nVidia GeForce 3 card in there is too ancient for decent performance with some applications ...
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