Note: The is supposed to offer some performance enhancements, but I honestly don’t expect a fundamental shift from a two-week-old build of the OS.My experience with this 9-year-old box shocked me: It ran super-smooth and was surprisingly responsive just navigating Windows 10’s menu system.Reality hit me in the face, though, when I decided to actually do something-like task the Edge Browser with opening five media-heavy pages, including. I dropped in a Radeon HD 6570 and a 320GB, 7,200rpm hard drive. I installed the only version of Windows 10 I had in ISO form at the time: Build 10162. It’s a few weeks old and the last technical preview ISO released by Microsoft before pausing the entire program. Inside it has perhaps one of Intel’s worst-respected CPUs, a 3.2GHz Pentium D, as well as 2GB of DDR2 RAM and a dead video card.I removed the machine’s fax modem. The machine had been moldering away in a pile of old rigs at PCWorld and obviously wasn’t in its original state. Carbon-dating of the chassis tells me it’s from the year 2006 A.D.
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