Reply 20 of 45, by Standard Def Steve
I had an IBM 300PL a few years ago. I believe it's pretty much the same computer as the GL, except with an AGP slot.
It was an OK machine. Had that nice IBM stability and was whisper quiet. I managed to get it upgraded to a Celeron 1400 with a Slocket and a Lin-Lin FCPGA-2 adapter.
However, I like my Dimension XPS T550 quite a bit more. It's just as stable and quiet, much easier to work with, and it uses standard AGP spacing (unlike the 300PL, which requires AGP cards with NLX-style mounting brackets). Plus, the Dell machine is a bit faster. Using the same Celeron-1400, 512MB of CL2 SDRAM, and a V3-3000 GPU, the Dell outperforms the 300PL across the board by 2-4%. These include benchmarks like 3DMark 99-2001, PCMark2002, SuperPi, Quake3, and demanding DOS games like Screamer 2 in SVGA.
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