OT: Upgrading an AMD processor

[Tycho Andersen]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Nigel Ridley
<nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
>
> Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > Nigel:
> >
> > How much RAM does the system have, and do you know if you can add more? That
> > may be another (possibly cheaper) option to upgrading the system, and you
> > might see better results depending on where the bottleneck is.
> >
> > Tycho
>
> It has 1GB and yes there is room for more.
>
> Nigel

I'm running 8.10 on a box of similar age with similar specs (AMD
FX-55, nVidia 6800GT, 2GB RAM). After disabling the desktop effects,
KDE4 responds quite a bit faster. You might also try that first, to
see if it helps at all.

Tycho