how slow is too slow?

[RobCur]

1.3ghz?
such as 1ghz?
800mhz?
500mhz?
366mhz?

 

[clarkey01]

1.3Ghz is fine for runnign xp , dvd's etc, not sure about games or future Os's, longhorn due 2006/7 is going to power hungry or so reports say

what is it you use your pc for ?

 

[RobCur]

i dont game at all lol. for p2p, and surfing the web basically

 

[SneakyStuff]

I ahve an old 866 MHz PIII laying around, and it's actually pretty fun to tinker with. I just like seeing what it can do, so far I've ran unreal 2k3 on it, and stuff like Age of Mythology. Works fine, but not as fast as a modern machine.

 

[jagec]

depends on what you're doing...for generalized web surfing, to be perfectly honest a PIII-500 works OK with enough RAM.

For my own personal uses though? over 2GHz (AMD) or over 2.4GHz (P4) is pretty darn nice.

 

[MichaelZ]

Browsing web? 1ghz is enough. My P3 600 bogs down when there's loads of flash and other multimedia on a website, so 1ghz is probably enough for most of those surfing and file sharing needs.

366mhz is too slow and 500mhz with 128 ram is borderlining on slow.