AMD duron

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I have a friends computer. The system settings report 64M ram and it
says AMD duron from Compaq

How fast is that? It has ME on it. Will it run XP?

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
• PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended;
233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel
Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible
processor recommended

• 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum
supported; may limit performance and some features)
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Terry said:
I have a friends computer. The system settings report 64M ram and it
says AMD duron from Compaq

How fast is that? It has ME on it. Will it run XP?

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
• PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended;
233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel
Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible
processor recommended

• 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum
supported; may limit performance and some features)
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You would *really* like to have 500 meg or more of memory with XP.
Windows Me was about the crappiest OS ever invented.
 
Terry said:
I have a friends computer. The system settings report 64M ram and it
says AMD duron from Compaq

How fast is that?
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Depends on the Duron. How long is a piece of string?
 
Terry said:
Were will the speed be displayed? I would think that information
should be on the systems page.
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I *think* with mine, it's been stamped on the CPUs. That said (since he
seems to have it out, since he mentioned something else that was on the
part itself), it should be shown on booting, shouldn't it?
 
Terry said:
I have a friend's computer. The system settings report 64M ram and it
says AMD duron from Compaq

How fast is that? It has ME on it. Will it run XP?
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I'm typing this from a system with a 1.6 GHz Duron and 512MB of
memory. It's not sluggish, even when playing videos or compressing
DVD movies, but I can't imagine XP running well with less than 250MB -
512MB of memory. I've gotten slow operation with 64MB even when
running 98SE.
 
Terry said:
I have a friends computer. The system settings report 64M ram and it
says AMD duron from Compaq

How fast is that? It has ME on it. Will it run XP?

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
• PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended;
233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel
Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible
processor recommended

• 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum
supported; may limit performance and some features)
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RAM will be the limiting factor on your machine.
You need more of it, much more.

Ignore MS recommendations for RAM. You need at least 256MB. 512 would be
better and 768MB - 1GB would be ideal.

The CPU is more than capable of handling XP.
I think Durons were about 600Mhz to about 1300Mhz (roughly) so any Duron
will run the OS fine.
Bear in mind that the Hard drive on such an old machine will probably be
quite slow and that will limiti performance of the machine, especially for
Windows startup speed.

Cheers!
 
i ran xp pro on duron 1.2 with 256 megs ram for years
with no problems. basic computer for internet, email,
and busniness aps.
mike
 
Were will the speed be displayed? I would think that information
should be on the systems page.
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If not the click start>>run and type dxdiag
Info should be on the first screen that appears.

Durons did go up to about 1.6Ghz I believe.
 
fwibbler said:
RAM will be the limiting factor on your machine.
You need more of it, much more.

Ignore MS recommendations for RAM. You need at least 256MB. 512 would be
better and 768MB - 1GB would be ideal.

The CPU is more than capable of handling XP.
I think Durons were about 600Mhz to about 1300Mhz (roughly) so any Duron
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That's pretty close. IIRC, I had a 600 and a 1200, and could've gone a
*little* higher except for my mobo's FSB limitation.
 
Were will the speed be displayed? I would think that information
should be on the systems page.
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when youi boot the computer you have it usually display
the cpu speed, ram ect...

or try directx diag DXDiag in program files/directx/setup

64m is the only problem here. even a p2 400mhz can XP
just get more memory. i did boot XP once on a
p 233 with 64mb and 6gig hd . was slow
64 megs was the definitive slow point there
 
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