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Obi-Wan Jerkobi TechSpot Booster Registered: February 2008 Location: Lake Effect Apocalypse Posts: 640	Tired of the fan blowing my papers away, I decided to find an inexpensive paperweight I had in my possession. A Pentium II 266 will do the trick!
	· Date: June 16, 2008 · Views: 5358 · Filesize: 328.5kb, 1456.1kb · Dimensions: 1280 x 960 ·
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TimeParadoX
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Registered: August 2006
Location: DE_Dust 2
Posts: 2,488

June 19, 2008 04:56

Don't make fun of the ole' Pentium II

I still have memories of that thing running Win95.

Obi-Wan Jerkobi
TechSpot Booster

Registered: February 2008
Location: Lake Effect Apocalypse
Posts: 640

June 19, 2008 12:36

That thing is long dead though. One power spike killed it and the motherboard it was on.

Quantex_rox
TechSpot Member

Registered: July 2007
Posts: 181

June 19, 2008 18:38

Hey, a 266 will run xp, even a 233 will run xp, my friend ran a gateway 2000 233 on xp for a long time just fine.

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