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The original owner must have liked using filters in Photoshop. I can’t think of another reason someone would pair a CPU like that with modest(for 2002) 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD

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Not sure about today, but there was a time PCs were sold on overspecced CPUs. The consumer would look at the clock speed and think he is getting a "fast" computer. The vendor would pocket the savings on putting in weaker everything else.

AMD Athlon 2000, 1666 MHZ, just 256MB RAM, and a Geforce2 MX of 32MB.

People with a Radeon 9700 64MB, 512MB of RAM and a PIII 1GHZ did it better.

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