Gnome/KDE resources

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses  
less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux  
on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.

Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome  
uses less resources.
I tried to remember what it was that I had read about KDE and began  
to think, well maybe it wasn't that KDE used less resources overall  
but that it used less ROM or something. Doesn't matter. My question  
then is, given an older machine that KDE or Gnome can run on, which  
should I install to get better performance?

Thanks!

Curtis

PS. Please no rants!!!! You can write me directly in order to avoid  
such, if you want.
PPS. I know about IceWM, etc. which use much less resources than KDE  
or Gnome. But those don't interest me for the purpose of this letter.  
Thanks!