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Reply 20 of 22, by redblade7

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ncmark wrote:

Yes - it set up a swap partition when it installed.

I think one of the reasons it was so slow initially was I had it installed on and old 5400 RPM DMA 33 drive. When I changed it to a newer 7200 RPM DMA 66 drive I noticed a BIG difference (and 768 MB of RAM helps a lot too)

When it comes to "help, my computer is too slow" hard drive RPM is completely underrated and ignored. In fact if upgrading a computer I'd probably replace the 5400 RPM hard drive first. Once you have 7200 RPM you never go back.

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