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wow thats surprising a PII and a Celeron are practically the same chip, just
less L2 cache
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>> a.. Opinions please, is this enough computer to run FS9:
>> a..
>> a.. PC with 450 MHz processor
>> a.. 128 MB of system RAM
>> a.. 8 MB video card
>>
> Needs a better video card, but they aren't too much. You can't max out
> all
> the settings tho. I ran FS9 on a PII 450 with a Diamond Stealth card for
> quite awhile. Then I got a ATI 9200 128 MB vid card which improved things
> a
> lot and I got to move many of the sliders to the right.
>
> This past xmas I thought I'd upgrade and bought a used Celeron 700 board.
> Big mistake as the Celeron created a slide show. Not even close to the
> PII
> 450. I'd given the PII to my wife so I was on the hunt. Current system
> (not the best but it works)...
>
> PIII 1.0GHz
> Win 2K
> 256 MB system ram
> ATI 9200 128 MB ram vid card
>
> I just fly 'Real Airs' Cessna so maybe that's why it works for me.
>
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