What could be wrong??

[arch0nmyc0n]

I cant imaging only having 128mb of ram, hell my video card has 2X that. I'll keep my 2GB dual channel DDR 400 anyday

Ok... is there anything out there that actually uses 256mb of video memory?

[Daniel_C]

a friend of mine had windows 2000 running on 32 megs of ram and a 2 gig hd, it worked just fine and ran other apps as well. It worked beautifully up to the day I stepped on it. My HP came with 128 megs of ram and winxp as well.

[edball]

I cant imaging only having 128mb of ram, hell my video card has 2X that. I'll keep my 2GB dual channel DDR 400 anyday

I remember the days when I had 16k of RAM on my old Atari. I was so happy when I got my IBM clone with 256k.

[corturbra]

All the Compaqs I've had all had Bigfoot hard drives, which are by FAR the slowest and noisiest hard drives ever made. Any computer with a bigfoot will run slow as hell even if it had 3+ghz cpu.

I changed the hard drive in my Compaq (many years ago befire I learned I could build a 10x better PC for 1/2 the price) to a maxtor ata100 7200 and it was at least 20 times faster.

I did the same for my dad's compaq, it used to take 1-2 hours to convert a CD to mp3, after I changed the hard drive it took about 10 minutes.

Opposite to what most typical users think, for most things the hard drive has a much bigger impact on performance than the CPU. A 200mhz CPU with a RAID 0 SATA would run miles faster than a 3 ghz with an ata33 4000rpm hard drive. Of course some things like frame rate smoothness for videos/games are more afected by the CPU (and video card) but for loading programs/files the hard drive is what affects performance the most, since it is after all the bottleneck in a PC.

Gotta agree with you here, the improvements in upping a hard drive from 5400 rpm to 7200 are far more dramatic than any CPU/RAM upgrades I've done. I had a Fujitsu Scenic with 666/128 RAM in it, used to run like a snail on some kind of sleeping tablet, I swapped the hdd for a 20 GB 7200 and it runs quicker than some of the 1GHz CPU's here with 256 RAM. That was until the IDE controller went pop the other day

Goodbye Windows 98 and welcome to XP.....

[thorian]

Ok... is there anything out there that actually uses 256mb of video memory?

Farcry does

[arch0nmyc0n]

Farcry does

is there a technical webpage somewhere about that?

[thorian]

is there a technical webpage somewhere about that?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1620524,00.asp

[Radical Dreamer]

Farcry does

As does doom 3