1.8 GHz P4
640 MB DDR 200MHz EDO Ram
ATI Rage XL (On board)
20GB HD
Not a powerhouse, but like I said, X seemed to run fine when I had RH 8.0 and FC1 on the same system.
I dropped down from millions to thousands of colours, and that seems to have helped drop the CPU by around 5-10%. Dropping the resolution does not have much of a impact though, there was little difference in performance between the 800x600 and 1600x1200 (when using gnome-terminal, for example)
However, I tried running xterm instead of gnome-terminal, and that is much faster when scrolling lots of text. Is there a way to scale down gnome-terminal, perhaps by using basic fonts instead of font server?
Anyway, everything is _working_ so I don't want anyone one to waste time trying to figure this out... I'll pick away at it whenever I get a free moment. Any suggestions still appreciated