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eTower and XP
Topic Started: Dec 17 2004, 01:03 AM (249 Views)
spankyw2
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Will someone tell me if XP Pro will work on an etower 366i2. I have enough Ram at 320 it has that Florida mobo though
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blb250
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You need at least a 450Mhz processor. I am sure that Xp will install on something lower but be aware that perforence wise... It will suck.
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 Clocked at 2.2ghz
512MB DDR 400 RAM pc3200
80GB 7200RPM HD
ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
CD-RW 52x24x52 Drive ARTEC
NZXT Guardian Case
Thermal Display
420WATT Power Supply
17IN IBM monitor
3D Wave Stereo Sound Onboard
8x AGP NVIDIA GEFORCE-FX 5200 128MBW/ TV OUT
Wireless Kensington Mouse
Standard White Keyboard
10/100 Lan onboard
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spankyw2
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Thank you.
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dsf260
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You can actually install XP on a 486. It probably would be agonizingly slow, but it can be done.

Give it a whirl and see how performance is. I've never used XP on anything lower than a Cele 900, but on that system, it's fast enough w/ 384 MB Ram.

T1090--Upgraded everything except floppy drive
MSI KM2M Combo-L w/ Athlon XP 2400+ Tbred-B
INWIN 523G case w/ 250w PS*GF3TI200 64MB*OrangeMicro Firewire/Network PCI card
2x WD Caviar 120GB*Lite-ON 40x12x48 CD-RW*768 MB PC133 (1 512, 1 256)
Original T1090 license of XP Home running (sort of)

Compaq Presario 910US
Upgraded to undervolted XP 2400+ (from 1500+)*512 MB*W200 Wireless (802.11B)*30GB*Combo DVD 8x/CD-RW 24x

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spankyw2
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I am wondering will this mobo take a 500 meg. Because I can get them real cheap, for about 10 bucks. Yeah I had a 900 meg with XP Pro on it , I sold it. But I am a musician and I want to move this rig to the basement where my drums, guitar, and keyboard is.
So I can download programs like Cake Walk. I am going to get another rig soon, but I want this one up to par. But I think this rig can take 500 Mhz. What do you think ?
And besides the skimpy power supply, I like this machine.
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azpicturethis
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Check here: http://www.e4allinc.info/dir1/motherboards...3_end_users.htm
Cooler Master 932 HAF AMD edition Computer Case
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
MSI 870A Fuzion mobo
Patriot PC12800 DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory 8GB
1- Seagate 1Tb HDD
EVGA GTS 450 1Gb
DVD±RW w/Lightscribe
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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spankyw2
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dsf260
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I seem to remember that someone got a Tualatin cpu with a powerleap adapter running in a Como-3 board at 2/3rds speed. So with a rated 1400 cpu, they managed to get 924mhz. Not positive about this though

Don't plan on getting any more speed out of it--it's unlikely to get past 924 without some overclocking--and you are already running the system somewhat out of spec with this option anyway.

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T1090--Upgraded everything except floppy drive
MSI KM2M Combo-L w/ Athlon XP 2400+ Tbred-B
INWIN 523G case w/ 250w PS*GF3TI200 64MB*OrangeMicro Firewire/Network PCI card
2x WD Caviar 120GB*Lite-ON 40x12x48 CD-RW*768 MB PC133 (1 512, 1 256)
Original T1090 license of XP Home running (sort of)

Compaq Presario 910US
Upgraded to undervolted XP 2400+ (from 1500+)*512 MB*W200 Wireless (802.11B)*30GB*Combo DVD 8x/CD-RW 24x

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Tazman
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I have XP Pro running on a 500 mhz machine with 384 MB RAM. Thing runs just fine for the kids and their older games. All other apps like MS Office run well also. Would not want to try and run a real high end game thoguh, I think I tried running "Finding Nemo" on it and it was flakey.
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Guitarmanliam
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for a while, I ran XP Pro on a 400 Celeron with 256MB RAM and it wasn't too bad. It had an AGP slot, so got a GeForce 2 MX200 at a car boot sale for £10 and played Call Of Duty on V. Low settings. Was very very slow though
eMachines 790 (UK)
2.6 Pentium 4
512MB 2700 DDR
Samsung SV1204H
Trigem Imperial G Board - With AGP
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Samsung SW248F CD Burner
Samsung SD616T DVD ROM
NEC ND2500A DVD-RW
GeForce 4 MX440SE
15" Samsung TFT
External 8GB Hard Drive
Broadband Connection
Apple iPod 20GB

Dell Latitude C610
1GHz Pentium 3
512MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive
WiFi

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TD25x
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I installed a PL-iP3/T 1400C on a Como-III and it was slow as hell....But this guys 366i2 has the Florida-TG/TGA in it....
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‡ Intel DG33TLM
‡ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
‡ 2 x 1GB Crucial PC6400 DDR2
‡ EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
‡ 1- WD 80GB SATA2 10,000RPM Raptor
‡ 1- WD 1.0TB SATA3 7200RPM
‡ Samsung 22x DVD-RW SH-S222L
‡ Corsair AX750W PSU
‡ Win7 Ult x64
‡ Logitech wireless keyboard & mouse
‡ DELL - UltraSharp 2408WFP 24-inch Flat Panel
‡ Bose Companion 3 speakers
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dsf260
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Whoops...my bad. I don't know why I thought it was a Como-III.

T1090--Upgraded everything except floppy drive
MSI KM2M Combo-L w/ Athlon XP 2400+ Tbred-B
INWIN 523G case w/ 250w PS*GF3TI200 64MB*OrangeMicro Firewire/Network PCI card
2x WD Caviar 120GB*Lite-ON 40x12x48 CD-RW*768 MB PC133 (1 512, 1 256)
Original T1090 license of XP Home running (sort of)

Compaq Presario 910US
Upgraded to undervolted XP 2400+ (from 1500+)*512 MB*W200 Wireless (802.11B)*30GB*Combo DVD 8x/CD-RW 24x

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etower-700
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old school eMachine
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Guitarmanliam
Dec 21 2004, 05:34 PM
for a while, I ran XP Pro on a 400 Celeron with 256MB RAM and it wasn't too bad.

Even with my sister’s old Toshiba Value computer with 128mb of ram and Celery 350, XP Pro works like wonders! She can even run office 2k3 flawlessly. :ph43r:
etower 700:
White Verna case
Anaheim-3 Mombo (2000 edition)
Pentium III 1.1 fc-pga @ 1.4
2x PNY 256mb PC 100 (with cooling)
WD raptor X 150GB, 250GB and 120GB hard drive
GeForce FX 5500 with 128MB DDR
Audjy LS 24 bit sound blaster card
Linksys Ethernet card
2x eView 17p
eKey 5000 with eMouse (scrool)
OS: Windows 2k3 Server, 2k pro, 98se, and Linux Mandrake
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