** Reply to message from Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:47:48 +0200
Maybe a better graphics card instead? I've played with some very adequate systems (AMD) of that speed, but with a good graphics card installed. Of course, if you can come by another faster cpu, it never hurts, does it? ;o)
The graphics card, which is on the MB, is ATI 3D Rage. I do not think its painting of the screen is the limiting factor, as the system is quite nimble with OS/2. Evidently, Linux has much more going on besides what the graphics card does, so that the system is glacially slow. I should have also specified how much RAM is in the system -- it has 512MB. The size of the SWAP partition is 1GB. I probably didn't ask my question clearly enough. What I really want to know is if there are others running SUSE with 800MHz CPUs; I would like to hear if SUSE 9.x seems adequately fast with such equipment, or if it still seems too slow (a subjective judgement, I know). The point is that I don't want to put out that much money for a 800MHz CPU if it will leave me still with an inadequate system. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 "Never eat more than you can lift." -- Miss Piggy