I would like to start a thread about computers. - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

kknudson · #16 03-08-2007, 01:48 AM

Lets see 7 computers here, in my house.

All but one Intel. Never was a big fan of AMD.

Wife's ----------------- P4 2.6ghz, 1gig, minimal HD space

Print Server ------------ Old PIII 448Mhz (yes Mhz), 768 meg ram

Home Controller -------- Celeron 1ghz, 504meg ram

Main Server (MS SBS 2003) -- AMD Athlon 797 mhz, 786meg ram, 200 gig of HD space on several drives. yes 3 drives total 200gig. And a couple of USB drives for backup.

My Desktop ------------ P4 2.6ghz (was a 3.4 but fried it and the MB recently can't find a P4 to upgrade it, but I had spare MB and processor), 4gig ram, 4HDs OS18g, main Pgm 60g, Data etc 150g, swap 18g.
Dual video cards puhing 4 19" LCDs

DB Server (My new toy) - Win2003, SQL2000 and SQL2005
Pentium D 945, 3.4ghz Dual, 4gig, just under a terrabyte HDs across 8 drives.

Laptop -- Old Compaq EVO (with a new MB) Pentium M 2.4ghz, 1gig ram, 80 gig HD

Did I mention I'm a nerd

Monomer · #17 03-08-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by justinwrock

Monomer, whats the specs of your puter?

I got some old stuff laying around that may help out our computer. Let me know..

See above post.

Needs a video card (any, but nvidea is perfered, as they support linux more) and ram (ddr, I believe)

300SD81 · #18 03-08-2007, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

If you want reliability, I suggest getting ECC RAM. It makes a huge difference in system stability, especially when the computer gets to be a few years old. Servers will nearly always use ECC RAM, and ECC cache in the CPU.

Its reliable enough for my purposes. Its more of a hobby, especially since I'm running it on a home internet connection... I host a few of my own websites and my friends, a mercedes factory service manual to access from school, remote access for my computers, router, etc... I mainly use it for file storage and cpu intensive stuff like encoding videos anyway. Got a TV card on it, can encode hdtv to xvid real time and still not max out cpu..

Matt L · #19 03-08-2007, 07:58 PM

I find that old RAM gets pretty flaky. Your system isn't old, so you don't really have any cause to worry.

All of my computers are ancient and have no value other than the usefulness to me, or I wouldn't have them.

raymr · #20 03-09-2007, 07:13 PM

There are millions of perfectly usable and well-designed PCs out there with <1Ghz processors and 500mb ram. Microsoft should market a Vista lite for people who don't want or need the latest and greatest.

Monomer · #21 03-10-2007, 06:44 AM

Ubuntu Linux.

nearly all the user friendliness of windows, less bull****.

It runs windows programs better using a program such as WINE than windows runs it's own programs...

Kuan · #22 03-10-2007, 09:20 AM

Toshiba laptop. 833/256/20/XP POS! Why the hell can't I edit my config.sys and autoexec.bat and fix my problems? PITA.

Today I go and get a Mac.

raymr · #23 03-10-2007, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Monomer

Ubuntu Linux.

nearly all the user friendliness of windows, less bull****.

It runs windows programs better using a program such as WINE than windows runs it's own programs...

It looks like Win2K support is slowly fading away. My IE6 now breaks on various Java applications with the last MS patch. IE7 will not be available in Win2K at all. Our PCs are too small for Vista, but too good to throw away. I think Linux is our upgrade choice. In the meantime Firefox seems to work just fine.

Monomer · #24 03-10-2007, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by raymr

It looks like Win2K support is slowly fading away. My IE6 now breaks on various Java applications with the last MS patch. IE7 will not be available in Win2K at all. Our PCs are too small for Vista, but too good to throw away. I think Linux is our upgrade choice. In the meantime Firefox seems to work just fine.

The latest ubuntu install comes with firefox 2.

It flies.