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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
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Evening SQ - got some good real estate type stories. When we bought our house we used an individual real estate agent. We got the house, about week later, a real estate agent arrived at our door to show the house. Upon informing her it weren't for sale, she informed us it was and she had the exclusive. I assured her LSA & I were the new owners.
Seems the old owner, a sort of mail order type preacher fella, had signed several exclusive contracts and then ended up stiffing them all and our agent. That was too bad since she got us a good deal on the house.
Hey there...
Fer computers: I'd say the money should go, in order, to RAM, then Video card, then processor, then Monitor. Peripherals like DVD burners can always be picked up later and plugged in as external devices if you come up with a need for it. It's a good idea to make sure that the CD drive is a CD (RW) burner though.
512MB of Ram is good, but 1GB is better and pretty cheap power these days. Video card should be at least 64Mb and 128 is better.
Once the processor is over 2Ghz you're just not going to be able to see the difference from one to the next. The biggest stressor you'll have on the system will be the games that the kids (or you) will wanna play. Games are generally very RAM and video intensive, moreso than processor. Processor matters, but todays CPUs are so unfathomably fast that the bottlenecks are really more in RAM and video rendering.
Dell refurbished is an excellent way to go. Probably the best bang fer the buck out there.
Dell new stuff is getting cheaper all the time, and they have some pretty good values.
Dell has about the best support there is, too... (Hi Rose!).
Howdy howdy everbody... :-)
mmmmmmm.... maters.... I'll try that next time... glad you liked it...
didjuh use a whole garlic bulb?...
sleet and freezing rain here... the expectin' 3" of snow by tuhmorrow...
shuweet...
y'all have confirmed I still know enuff about this stuff tuh be dangerous...
thanks... I was on the right track...
okay... been on the Dell website fer a while...
what's the fargin' diff'rence between a mini-tower, small mini tower, micro tower, small form factor?...
which is the best option fer expansion?...
Got some pictures of inside the house. My photography leaves something to be desired but hopefully you'll get the main details. I still need to get pictures of the garage and the "grounds".
Ummm.....the bathroom and the computer room are two separate rooms. No dwarf design here!
Evening Ramius-very informative post on the hardware question. Thanks for keeping it basic for luddites like me.
g'nad - yup, a whole bulb, is there any other way? Gonna have some good lunches for work.
very nice OT.... very nice...
Great pics of thenewhouseontheprairie.
Only thing missing is Miss Kitty's Sunroom. :-)
Wouldn't ya know, good tracking snow and season's over.
They're supposed to start that on Feb 1st. At least that's when they're putting in the sliding glass door.
Saw three deer on the drive in this morning...
Fer expansion you want to stay with a larger size box (in thickness, not height). The tower, or mini tower, can still accept regular size cards. The micro (small form factor) boxes require the use of half-height cards for video, and such, and they're more expensive.
BUT: 99% of all expansion slots remain empty until the computer is disposed. Expandability is WAY overrated. Most of the time when you need to beef up video or sumpthin' there enough other stuff that's obsolete with the machine that you'll end up junking it and getting a new one anyway.
Most of the "expansion" that you'll do will be on USB peripherals anyway. The computer itself will probly not get touched for some years.
One thing I'd really recommend saving a hundred or so bucks for is a decent (like Seagate or Maxtor) external USB hard drive. For backups. Cheap insurance.
Very cool... nice place.
That mostly has to do with the size of the case (for the mini-tower, micro tower, etc) Look at the dimensions to be sure of how big they are. All of those are fairly small computers. I prefer at least a mid-tower, it gives you more room for fans and stuff, and more finger room if you have to open it up later.
Take a look at how many bays each has, and the motherboard specs. For instance, I bought a motherboard with four memory slots rather than the cheaper versions with two, because that means I can get more memory into it.
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