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need computer
Posted: November 4th, 2005, 9:20 pm
by mitmaks
Im tired of my 6+ year old ecrapmachine...I need something faster,
I was thinking this
http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-64-4000-GeForce ... dZViewItem
Except I wanna keep my harddrive with all the info ive got on there, its win98SE. Can I do that right? DSL will be much faster on it too, since my old computer downloads same file 3 times SLOWER than new computer using same DSL connection.
Posted: November 5th, 2005, 9:03 am
by Nd4SpdSe
You can just add the Win98 computer hard drive as a secondary drive and copy the files over, however you will not be able to move programs over.
Posted: November 5th, 2005, 3:29 pm
by mitmaks
is this deal seems to be good? So i can run 98SE OS on this new computer without problem?
Posted: November 5th, 2005, 3:43 pm
by Nd4SpdSe
If it has a good quality motherboard (MSI, Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, etc) and it's truely an Antec power supply, and it's a kickass deal, but even then, it would be a good deal none the less
Win98, will run, but run poorly. Alot of the new hardware and software has poor, if not Win98 supported. The computer will run, but not nearly to it's full potential. You'll be getting a new computer, but you wont be much better off until you get XP on there. And Windows 98 doesn't like more than 512MB RAM, I believe there's a problem runing more where you'll get overflow errors and programs keep saying your out of memory.
Posted: November 5th, 2005, 3:55 pm
by mxmaz
How do you know if it is going ot be a good deal when the auction hasn't ended and you dont know what the final price will be?
Posted: November 5th, 2005, 4:36 pm
by Nd4SpdSe
True, but he's asking it how, and right now it's a good deal, and it is

Posted: November 5th, 2005, 11:50 pm
by mxmaz
ok but obviously the price is going to go up, so it it to early to say yet.
Posted: November 7th, 2005, 8:34 pm
by opdmize
Just get XP and install your old hard drive.