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pentium 2

paddyc · 2004-02-09 15:07:29

I am gonna buy a pentium 2 from college cos they are going cheap and but my cd burner on it and then my DVD burner on my good PC. I got the folks a PII a few years ago, but when I tried to upgrade it it seemed that it only took certain types of RAm on the mother board? I look ed up the web site and this was correct, but I…

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09-02-2004 4:07pm

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paddyc

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I am gonna buy a pentium 2 from college cos they are going cheap and but my cd burner on it and then my DVD burner on my good PC.

I got the folks a PII a few years ago, but when I tried to upgrade it it seemed that it only took certain types of RAm on the mother board? I look ed up the web site and this was correct, but I though all PC's took any type of RAM?

So am I throwing good money after bad, by buying this and maybe it crawls along and I get no real use out of it?

let me know, thanks

paddy

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#2 09-02-2004 4:11pm
zAbbo

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Depending on the mobo, it prolly takes sdram pc 66/100

Would be a nice testbed for linux methinks, Gentoo would squeeze max performance outta it

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