XFCE vs. Openbox for my older system

The system in question is: PIII @ 1Ghz, w/ 512MB RAM and fbs 133MHz. (These numbers sound good, but keep in mind that it's 7-8 years old)
I know that I could just as well install GNOME or KDE techincally, but they will be pokey.
My questions are as follows:
Will XFCE + Openbox be significantly faster than XFCE + xfwm?
If not, will Openbox-only be significantly faster than XFCE + whatever?
What kind of functionality can I expect to lose when using Openbox-only as compared to XFCE?
If I want to use Openbox + XFCE-panel, will that pull in too many dependencies? I don't want to have the whole DE just to use the panel, but I hear that pypanel doesn't group tasks as well, so I'd like to keep the panel I'm used to.
Thanks All!

Yep, CPU in Eee comes clocked at 630MHz, though you could overclocked it to 900MHz if you want.
Anyway, from my personal experience, I've found that GNOME runs just fine on 630MHz, without any major lag or slowdown whatsoever.
However, one thing that Openbox (or other WM) is noticeably faster than GNOME on Eee is during starts up. Openbox will start up almost immediately, while GNOME will take ages. But aside from this, there isn't really that much different in performance between the two.
Last edited by zodmaner (2008-04-28 11:45:42)

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