New Computer
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Aug 17 23:17:56 UTC 2007
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:13 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Erich Zigler wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, August 17, 2007 1:53 pm, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Looking at Google I found The Biostar Geforce 6100-m9 NVIDIA Socket
>>>> 939 micro ATX USB 2.0/ Serial ATA/ RAID for $65.00 and a barebones kit
>>>> with mb and cpu and case 350 watt ps for $130.00.
>>>> It has a floppy drive and serial port on the mb. With all the other
>>>> stuff. This would be my cheapest new computer unless you know why it is
>>>> bad.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why are you getting a new computer? What would the new one do that your
>>> current one does not do? How old is your current computer?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> My current computer I made 5 1/2 years ago. It was made before USB
>> 2.0 and Serial were invented. Now it has slow USB two replaced fans a
>> replaced power supply and has two old hard drives.
>>
>>
> Looks like buying anew computer is a good idea but serial ports were
> invented more than 5-1/2 years ago. Just trivia.
>
>> This new one lets me buy new hard drives of the fast 3.0 GB/sec
>> serial type and the cpu is twice as fast as this one. I don't really
>> need that. The box I buy has new fans and is half the size of my current
>> one.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> Linux User
>> #450462 http://counter.li.org.
>>
>>
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>
Hi Aaron yes but if you wander into Wal Mart and look at their new home
and laptop computers you will see no serial ports. You can buy a USB to
serial device for $20 that works sort of. Mine will do most things but
not what I wanted.
Thinking I will have in 3-7 days a new basic computer. I can put
this hard drive in it and not loose a thing after getting the video
problem sorted out. The motherboard video is of course different :-)
I will put in the ram and DVD drive and set up the new computer with
slow ide hard drives and slow ram. After it all works again then I will
buy a pair of serial 250GB hard drives, use hardware RAID on the
motherboard :-)
These drives will be VERY FAST in/out and I will move this f7 to it in a
raid configuration.
Then a lot of fast RAM when the price again drops.
Sounds a little old fashioned but that is me at 72 years old. I am
really not too sure I will outlast this computer 8-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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