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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
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I've been able to run AntiX on my Pentium 3 rig, and it was significantly faster than Windows XP. AntiX is just Debian meant to run on very low end systems. I'm sure an Athlon 64 X2 could easilly handle something like Xfce or LXQT. The main limiting factor is going to be the system RAM.