I went to my local thrift shop and found a Dell Inspiron for $150 - it's got
a DVD-RW, 16 GB of RAM, a 3TB drive and an I7-4790 CPU. It'll make a nice upgrade from my old Core 2 Quad box.

I'm surprised at how sparse it is on the inside - my Precision Workstation circa 2011 has fans everywhere and a ton of drive bays, the Inspiron has a case with covered ports and those 2000-era smooth covers over the DVD
drives. Not as garish as my old Compaq Presario, by any means.


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Re: New Toy
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Feb 16 2021 09:30 pm

I went to my local thrift shop and found a Dell Inspiron for $150 - it's got a DVD-RW, 16 GB of RAM, a 3TB drive and an I7-4790 CPU. It'll make a nice upgrade from my old Core 2 Quad box.

I'm surprised at how sparse it is on the inside - my Precision Workstation circa 2011 has fans everywhere and a ton of drive bays, the Inspiron has a case with covered ports and those 2000-era smooth covers over the DVD drives. Not as garish as my old Compaq Presario, by any means.

people dont need a lot of drive bays anymore, or even a dvd drive.
also, fans don't really do a good job of cooling, nor are many fans needed anymore.

i had a core 2 duo that was always hot as hell and had lots of fans i added. eventually i had to put a box fan on it.

this i7 computer just needs little fans and stays cool, even when gaming at max settings.
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this i7 computer just needs little fans and stays cool, even when
gaming at max settings. ---

This new little i7 is plugged into the same UPS that the Core 2 Quad was plugged into. With the old system I had 11 minutes of run time. With the new system, 24 minutes.


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Re: Re: New Toy
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Sat Feb 20 2021 07:35 am

MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

this i7 computer just needs little fans and stays cool, even when gaming at max settings. ---

This new little i7 is plugged into the same UPS that the Core 2 Quad was plugged into. With the old system I had 11 minutes of run time. With the new system, 24 minutes.

... Frightfully nice.

yep new computers are optomized and energy efficient. more reason to get rid of the old stuff.
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