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Question: what OS to put in this rig?

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huey1124

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Sorry to post this here, but I know not that many people read the actual technical forums so.....

I have an old Dell Optiplex system running PII 350mhz, planning on putting in 512mb of P133 SDRAM. I installed WinXP before, but it seemed to run a little sluggish. What I want to know is, what OS would be best one to install on this? WinXP, Win2000, or Win98SE (gasp)? This is a spare rig I'm not using, and I'm planning on giving it to someone who will have light use on it (mostly internet on cable modem). Also, will there be a noticeable difference by upgrading to a 400mhz CPU? Thanks in advance.

 
I'd go Win2K before I downgraded any further.
I ran Win2K on a P200 with 512MB of RAM and it ran alright actually.
I think you'll be OK on 2K pro.
 

Thanks a lot for your answers.

So the consensus is that WinXP is that much bulkier than Win2000? Will install Win2000 on the machine and see how that goes.


 
if u turned off all the visual effects etc for XP (there is an option to do that), how does it run? i had xp run ok on a 500mhz k6-2 with 128 ram, and turning off visual fancy crap helped alot
 
Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
if u turned off all the visual effects etc for XP (there is an option to do that), how does it run? i had xp run ok on a 500mhz k6-2 with 128 ram, and turning off visual fancy crap helped alot
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In my experience, Win2k is faster than WinXP even if WinXP's visual effects have been turned off. I'd recommend Win2k for the original poster's Dell system, anyway. It should run just fine. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
if u turned off all the visual effects etc for XP (there is an option to do that), how does it run? i had xp run ok on a 500mhz k6-2 with 128 ram, and turning off visual fancy crap helped alot
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In my experience, Win2k is faster than WinXP even if WinXP's visual effects have been turned off. I'd recommend Win2k for the original poster's Dell system, anyway. It should run just fine. 🙂
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well i already assumed he had bought XP. but if he already has 2000 aswell, then yea go with that
 
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