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mcnally
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response 5 of 18:
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Dec 1 17:34 UTC 2003 |
re #4: I find it's very rarely worth the extra effort to do that
these days..
re #3: I agree with gull that you should buy as much memory as you
think you could ever reasonably need and then buy half as much again.
Extra RAM probably is the cheapest and most effective thing you can
add to boost performance for most home or office usage.
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gull
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response 6 of 18:
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Dec 1 18:29 UTC 2003 |
Re resp:4: Most modern OS's are good enough at disk caching that I don't
find that worth the trouble. Linux does a particularly good job of it.
On a Linux laptop system with 256 megs of RAM, I've closed Mozilla,
then opened it again several minutes later and seen the entire
application load completely out of the disk cache. It didn't even spin
up the hard disk.
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dcat
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response 7 of 18:
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Dec 2 02:18 UTC 2003 |
Circuit City recently had, during their sale Friday morning, 256 MB RAM for
$7 after rebates. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in my computer (machine's
too old for 133MHz RAM). The right kind of RAM would be $70 (this is cheap?),
which I don't have right now (paying my tuition bill is a slightly higher
priority right now. . .).
:-|
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gull
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response 8 of 18:
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Dec 2 15:15 UTC 2003 |
I consider it cheap. I once paid $20 each for four 1-meg SIMMs.
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flem
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response 9 of 18:
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Dec 3 15:30 UTC 2003 |
I recently bought a new computer. I ended up going with either 2.6Ghz
or 2.4Ghz Pentium (can't remember for sure since I'm not at home). I
did a decent amount of research, and right now pentiums are beating
athlons at every point in the price/performance curve that I was
interested in. Basically, I discovered that for a fixed amount of
money, say $200, I could get more performance (based on reviews, mostly
from tomshardware.com) from the pentium chip that cost that much than
from the athlon chip that cost that much, and that this was true for
pretty much every dollar amount that I looked at between I think $150
and $300. That kind of surprised me, since in the past Athlons have
done well in that kind of comparison. Right now the best reason (IMO)
to buy an Athlon instead of a pentium is to support competition in the
marketplace. Which is a good reason, but...
Now, that was maybe a month ago, so things have probably changed
completely by now. ;)
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gregb
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response 10 of 18:
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Dec 3 17:21 UTC 2003 |
First thing I ask is, "how much are you willing to spend?" Once that's
known it's easier to get the best bang for the buck. Speaking of which,
if your buying online, I reccomend using www.pricewatch.com for hunting
down deals on components. I've used it a number of times and even if I
couldn't find the deal I wanted, it was useful to see how the market was
headed.
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tod
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response 11 of 18:
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Dec 3 17:25 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 12 of 18:
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Dec 3 19:12 UTC 2003 |
tims cascade style will kick the ass of any dip.
I MEAN IT.
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tod
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response 13 of 18:
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Dec 3 19:41 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 14 of 18:
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Dec 3 20:55 UTC 2003 |
i meant that the CHIPS would stand up to any dip.
i dunno if tim's makes a dip.
btw, have you noticed that ALL dip out here sucks?
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tod
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response 15 of 18:
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Dec 3 23:18 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 16 of 18:
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Dec 4 02:28 UTC 2003 |
my wife makes a dip out of mrs. grass onion soup & sour cream.
it's as close to bernea as we can get out here.
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glenda
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response 17 of 18:
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Dec 4 03:33 UTC 2003 |
I like Knorr's Leek soup mix with sour cream. If I am making a double size
batch, I use the Leek soup and a package of Knorr's Onion soup mix.
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tod
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response 18 of 18:
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Dec 4 19:48 UTC 2003 |
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