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5 Sep 2024 15:26:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Building a new PC  
From: Invisible
Date: 19 Jun 2009 09:34:22
Message: <4a3b93de$1@news.povray.org>
>> - Why the GeForce 9-series? Price, or...?
> 
> Mostly price... Though, I'm not much of a gamer, either, so I don't need 
> the latest super-fast display.

Oh, well, if you don't need 3D graphics, then you don't need 3D 
graphics. ;-)

>> - Why only 2GB RAM? (I can't believe I'm actually saying that out 
>> loud...)
> 
> Not quite ready to run a 64-bit OS, don't need the extra memory. I've 
> seen very little appreciable gain with more than 2GB of ram, and memory 
> is easily upgradeable later.

OK, fair enough.

My laptop is running Vista 32-bit. (Interesting manufacturing choice...) 
But that came with 3GB of RAM, which I have upgraded to 4GB. (No, I 
didn't really notice any difference. But RAM is cheap ATM.)


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