I wouldn't run SP3 on that rig, stick to SP2, with 512mb of ram and an xp 1900 SP3 is pushing it

candle_86 wrote:

I wouldn't run SP3 on that rig, stick to SP2, with 512mb of ram and an xp 1900 SP3 is pushing it

You ain't gonna believe it but it runs smooth. In fact it takes around 30-40 secs to boot to desktop.

Ouch.

Well, it may run smooth enough (depending on the tasks it performs), but boot time is one of the worst benchmarks for performance. It depends very little on raw PC performance, and much more on your exact configuration, and what HW/SW you have installed ,including things that interact with other things in ways that are very hard to control and even predict.

I have seen a Pentium III sub-1GHz desktop that booted Windows XP to desktop in under 15 seconds, while my best XP rig (a Core 2 Duo 2GHz) takes well over two minutes to do so.

dr_st wrote:

I have seen a Pentium III sub-1GHz desktop that booted Windows XP to desktop in under 15 seconds, while my best XP rig (a Core 2 Duo 2GHz) takes well over two minutes to do so.

I'd say that would be because of the HDD's RPMs,but it also depends on RAM and CPU.

For example I have a AXP 2500+ rig with 1.50GB boot Windows 7 almost 5x faster than my Athlon 64 3200+ with the same amount of RAM.
Why it does this? Because the AXP 2500+ runs on a 7200RPM SATA HDD,while the 64 runs on a 5400RPM 1TB SATA HDD.

Those are my 2 cents.

PcBytes wrote:

I'd say that would be because of the HDD's RPMs,but it also depends on RAM and CPU.

No, it wouldn't. Not in that particular example, at least.

RAM has nothing to do with it, unless you have so little of it that you are already running out before the OS finished booting.

CPU speed and hard drive RPM can and do in principle affect boot time, but HW/SW configuration affect it so much more that for all practical purposes you can consider the effect to be random.

I haven't had much bad luck with SP3 provided that I didn't connect to the net but if you get better results with SP2 then go for it.

nforce4max wrote:

I haven't had much bad luck with SP3 provided that I didn't connect to the net but if you get better results with SP2 then go for it.

My system seems to have no problems on the net. Apart from IE6 being a total stupid, Mozilla runs fine,no slowdowns.

Also the system runs fast by itself. While it's fast,it also manages to look good.

It also has a custom bootscreen.

Do you use this as a primary box, or just for legacy / gaming purposes?

I have an old bench tower with XP for legacy reasons and also for my gameboy USB flashable cartridge which has LSDJ on it.
The ones like here (the software wasn't designed for Windows 7 and it's much easier just running it on XP): http://www.retrotowers.co.uk/gb-gameboy-usb-smart-card-64m

raymangold wrote:

Do you use this as a primary box, or just for legacy / gaming purposes?

Legacy/gaming purposes.

My primary rig is an Athlon 64 3200+. (pic of it is in the "computing area" of System Specs).