OT: Upgrading an AMD processor

[Nigel Ridley]

Tycho Andersen wrote:
> 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
> 

Desktop effects are already disabled - is there any *real* use to them?

Nigel

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