Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:37:10 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <software@schmittnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice Message-ID: <41431BA6.70100@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4142C74C.8010701@schmittnet.com> References: <4142C74C.8010701@schmittnet.com>
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Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: [ ... ] > Considering all of that, my questions are: > - Am I being unrealistic in choosing a machine with a 300MHz processor? No. But a faster CPU wouldn't hurt, either. > - If I add another 128MB of memory, should I expect to see a dramatic > improvement? Adding more memory is probably the most cost-effective way of improving performance. > - Could the graphics adapter itself be the bottleneck? Yes. A video card with 2MB of RAM is obsolete by today's standards. > - If I picked up a newer graphics adapter that was supported by xorg, > would a switch to 5.x and/or xorg be expected to pick up the speed a bit? A switch to 5.x is likely to slow things down. Switching to xorg might help a little. -- -Chuck
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