Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: >> >>> He has a 3.2 Ghz CPU which is much more then this 3800 but the only >>> thing that the 3800+ is good is that it has 2 cores but still same low >>> share ram ( I had one of these in the past). >> >> I'm considering the beast listed here, especially if my current beast >> dies: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883250296&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-83-250-296-_-Product >> I note that it has an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2G of RAM. >> It has those in common with a lot of cheap PC's I've seen. >> Are there gotchas here that I should know about? >> I'm already aware that Core 2 is on Intel's discontiued list. >> My current beast has Pentium 4 with 4G of RAM. > > Depending on what you are doing, you might miss the RAM. You should > be able to enable the VTx capability on that if you want to run KVM > but the option is hidden somewhere in the bios. > That's a nice price, but you really do want at least 4G of RAM. You might see if you can add more, at least two gig - bring it up to 4GB. mark