Subj : slooow
To   : Guido
From : Oli
Date : Tue Jan 04 2022 12:09:21

Guido wrote (2022-01-03):

 G> I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I
 G> think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case is
 G> SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core.
 G> There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work
 G> years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost
 G> go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser.

What browser are you using? I have a similar old Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60GHz and Firefox opens fast enough on Linux. I guess the HD is the thing that makes it slow.

 G> 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run
 G> across a system like this?

Should be fast enough for a BBS. But hows the power consumption when idle? Isn't it a waste of energy?

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