> Your CPU and graphics is the bottleneck. You should see better result to
change
 > a better graphics (Geforce DDR or wait for Geforce2 GTS) or a faster
Celeron.

Bottleneck ???....better results??? ... for what ???

A Celeron running at 541Mhz on 100 Mhz Bus in a cutting edge board with 256
megs of P100 ram and a Diamond TNT2 ULTRA  can run any game on the market
superbly. And running with 128 megs is no different. Get real ...  the day
this setup with 128 megs of RAM won't run any game great is the day the
game developer is going to loose 98 per cent of his market over night.  Let
me guess ...you bought a Geforce ...and they ain't cheap are they ?

 > Agree. If you use win2000, it would be an exception, win2k requires at
least 64M
 > RAM to start work (in real life task), 128M would be a standard number,
and 256
 > is a good number. Jun Qian

There you go again ...good number for what ????
256 is a good number if you are using Win 2000  in a Busy Server or
Professional Workstation environment but I have found for a home office
2000, Internet computer running Windows 2000 Pro 64 megs of RAM does just
fine and 96 megs is down right is quick !

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