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Niku-Sama wrote:...ok this is dumb.....450Mhz is fast enouigh to run windows 98 and play some realitivly modern games with ease...
Oh, I know. Actually it was running 98 when it was donated. But the hard drive is dying,m and I don't see any purpouse in installing 98 on a dying disk, especially when we get out of school on Monday. I was just going for novelty/comic value. (I've actually done most of my work on it for the last week. These kids working on nearby 98 and XP machines always crash or corrupt floppies. They start laughing and getting confused as to why I would bother with some old software like that, but then eat their words while their PCs crash and take 5 minutes to reboot. :P :lol: (It boots in under 25 seconds, counting from the press of the power button until the Program Manager appears. :lol:)

I don't really bother with PC games. The newest games I use a lot are The Sims and Unreal Tournament. :lol: And itr's a school comp so we can't really play games like Half Life 2 on them.

So really, I wasn't planning on accomplishing anything with it(at least until September when I plan on bringing in a new HD for it).
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Well, properly tweaked, a 166MHz Pentium MMX with 32MB RAM can play UT fairly well, even on online multiplayer. Recommended minimum is a 200MHz P-MMX with 32MB RAM, so a 450MHZ machine should run it EASILY.

I've had it running on a 166MHz P-MMX on 24 MB before, and it wasn't perfect, but it was playable.
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Right click on "My Computer" and click properties.

It'll display your processor type, speed, and amount of ram, all right there. And what games are you guys talking about??? All the games I run require at LEAST 1ghz to run decently.
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Doofus wrote:Right click on "My Computer" and click properties.

It'll display your processor type, speed, and amount of ram, all right there. And what games are you guys talking about??? All the games I run require at LEAST 1ghz to run decently.
Not the old ones. As I said, the first UT runs on even the earliest MMX processors.
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Post by xxxeagle »

I know a guy in my school who has a comp with a 133mhz processor and runs xp on it he knows more about computers than anyone else in the school or anyone that I know so you can probably run xp on it it will be a little slow compared to a new computer but It will still run.
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yes, though the recommended Minimum for XP is 166. Even that is slow. I've done it.
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