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Originally Posted by unregistered
the Athlons are 1200s on an early Tyan mobo
a modern desktop could cope if kinda maxed, over the weekend +
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Ah. Computationally your system is not horrible. The amount of memory and the latency of the access to it is, more often than not, the main concern for these types of problems. Agreed, considerably slower if dealing with a dual-athlon 1200 box with ~1GB of (slowish) RAM. Definitely want to max out a modern high-end desktop platform if you want to pretend to limping along ("running" being too strong of a word) with the big boys.
Still, I wouldn't laugh at what can be accomplished with your system. Very similar to the sorts of systems we were dealing with a few years back in my present job, and when we got all the subsystems singing in harmony, it really isn't that much slower than a modern high-end system excepting in very specific tasks. Just takes a little more caressing.
