Guest Strat Posted August 16, 2003 Report Share Posted August 16, 2003 Hi, I like to install Mandrake 9.1 on my second PC, but I don't know if the hardware are compatible, its : - Mainboard : Gygabyte ga-6vxe+ (for Pentium III) - CPU : Penitum III 500Mhz - Memory : 1x256 SDRam 100mhz (no name) - Hard disk : an old Maxtor 13 GO 5400/min - Graphic card : Nvidia Rive TNT2 Can I launch KDE or Gnome with full option with this configuration ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted August 16, 2003 Report Share Posted August 16, 2003 Yes for everything. You'll be running a little slow but then again any GUI is a resource hog. You need to goto the Nvidia site and download the installer for the vidio card after you have the system up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 16, 2003 Report Share Posted August 16, 2003 Welcome! I don't see any prob but you can look here to confirm; http://www.linuxhardware.org/ http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 No problems. I use an AMD Athlon 500 and I don't have any speed/performance problems with Mandy 9.1. The P3 500 is slightly slower, but should be fine. All your hardware should be supported out of the box, you will just need nVidia drivers, as Pzatch said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuoJing Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 I'd use something lighter like WindowMaker (in fact I'm using that with my P3 600 (Katmai) Compaq with ATI Rage128 onboard). KDE and GNOME will make your system crawl. But it's just me being very sensitive to speed, as my other machine is a P4-C 2.4@3.3GHz :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 No problem, it will fun fine. However, you can use a little more memory if you want to run KDE/Gnome AND other memory consuming application - notably Mozilla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuoJing Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Use MozillaFirebird instead of Mozilla. Use way less memory, and runs faster too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 You are all being ridiculous! My setup: AMD Athlon 500, 128MB RAM, Geforce 4 MX440. Gnome is nice n fast, KDE runs fine, only slightly slower then Gnome, Fluxbox FLIES! Now, you have double my amount of memory, so you should not have any problems with Mandy 9.1, run whatever you like, Gnome, KDE, etc. My friends have lost their minds, rcxau wil confirm this, he also uses an older processor. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 I agree. Even with 128 MB RAM and an Athlon 750, I had no problems with KDE or Gnome. KDE, of course runs slower. I had the same video card (the TNT2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 You are all being ridiculous! :lol: ...I agree :wink: My second pc has a Celeron 600, 192SDRAM, i810 video (slowest factor) and it runs gnome as well. Will use the swap a lot faster and more than my main sys (see SIG below) with 256 DDR400 PC2100 but linux is great at mem/swapping. You are fine.....run whatever :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Ditto: I have an old Compaq Presario laptop with AMD K6-2 333 and 192MB RAM and it is slower than my newer Athlon XP desktop but still very useable even with default mdk KDE desktop under Mandrake 9.1. My second desktop is a PIII/266 w/ 192 MB RAM and it is fine for non-game things. It only has 4MB video RAM so it suffers from a bottleneck there, but for surfing the net, email and office things it is acceptable for normal use. I run an Asus 3800 video card on my main desktop (Athlon 1600XP) which is a Riva TNT2 32MB and it is very fine for my normal use too. I say go for it! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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