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Old 02-17-2008, 01:21 AM   #16 (permalink)
NoCO2
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yea, well, like I said, I'm going to get it regardless because I just think they are so neat with their size and all. If I find it does what I need it to well enough, then I'll probably end up either selling the Core 2 or at least moving the case somewhere out of the way and only turn it on when I need it and live mostly off the VIA system. I have a feeling it will work just fine. I have been working on this P3 now for almost a week and my only complaint is the load time for firefox and that flash videos are lagging a bit. But I have been monitoring my system usage the whole time and RAM usage has never spiked above 150MB out of the 256MB installed so that's not the limit. The graphics card is only an 8MB GeForce card from forever ago so that might be it. I have a newer card I can swap into it to see. Otherwise it's probably the processor. The C7 is somewhere between 1.0 and 1.5Ghz (can't really find any specs for exactly what) but it has a FSB speed of 800mhz so it's at least that fast, probably faster though which should be more then enough for basic usage. I also think the idea of a completely silent, fanless computer is neat, I've always wanted one of those .
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