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On 2011/08/26 11:52 (GMT-0500) Duncan Way composed:

> I'm about to replace my desktop (it's 8 years old and showing it's age).

Showing age how?

> It will have a pcie-x ati card.

An option you may wish to consider is the path I took when upgrading to PCIe. 
I bought a new old stock PCIe card that uses a chip on the Snap supported 
chip list, e.g. X300, X600, X700, X800 and others.

OS/2 hasn't changed WRT older hardware like you have now, and it itself 
certainly doesn't demand faster hardware. You may enjoy increased speed when 
running office or Mozilla apps - if you can even get the newer hardware to 
work at all. Without ACPI support from the OS, newer hardware can be 
impossible to use.

IOW, "upgrading" your hardware may be an exercise best avoided unless playing 
the thoroughly research first and install eCS v2 instead of OS/2 game.
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