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On 11/05/2009 12:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I guess that could be seen as a kind of spam. I hope not. |
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> Further, so far as googling this kind of help or info. There is so |
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> damn much out there.. its too hard to tell what is good or even real. |
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> So here it is: |
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> I have a recently dead Intel P4 winxp box, I've got it completely |
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> stipped dowm, mobo out etc. Its a mid tower antex box.. nice size and |
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> fairly easy to work inside of. |
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One caution there -- newer computer hardware demands a great deal of |
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power, and older power supplies may not be up to the task. Don't try |
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to squeak by with a wimpy power supply. |
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> I thought maybe a mobo bundle would be a good starting place... |
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I've been building my own for years. and the choice of motherboard |
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has always been easy: I buy the mobo and CPU on sale that day at |
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Fry's ;o) (Do you know Fry's?) But I buy the best RAM available |
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because it's worth the few extra bucks. |
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The latest and greatest new hardware may not be supported by any |
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open source OS, so you may not want the latest hot mobo. I'd say |
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avoid any mobo less that a year or so old. (The ones on sale at |
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Fry's meet than criterion perfectly, as you'd expect.) |
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I'm sure more advice will be forthcoming :o) |
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