I have an 800 mhz pentium 3 that I am looking for a motherboard for. I want to make it an internet machine. Yes, I know it is old...but I want to have a designated internet machine to keep virus's confined to one machine. I usually open 15 to 20 windows at a time, will be downloading files while listening to music, reading e-mails, googling for research materials, reading news magazines, etc all at the same time. I have broadband.
My questions:
Which piece of hardware has the greatest impact on speed? Video card? memory? hard drive? I already have the cpu, so that is not changeable.
Is there a particular OS will make this faster? 98? XP? some flavor of Linux?
Which browser will be faster?
How much memory is enough? too much?
How do I optimize the OS?
Anything else?
My questions:
Which piece of hardware has the greatest impact on speed? Video card? memory? hard drive? I already have the cpu, so that is not changeable.
Is there a particular OS will make this faster? 98? XP? some flavor of Linux?
Which browser will be faster?
How much memory is enough? too much?
How do I optimize the OS?
Anything else?