Well like @Red Squirrel just said, the person whom he gives it can install whatever OS they want on it.You might want to ask before putting Linux on a gifted PC. I’ve done it in the past, only to see a bootleg copy of Windows show up on it later.
Well like @Red Squirrel just said, the person whom he gives it can install whatever OS they want on it.You might want to ask before putting Linux on a gifted PC. I’ve done it in the past, only to see a bootleg copy of Windows show up on it later.
Do you focus on SFF at all? Standard ATX is just a complete waste of space. I'm really not sure why people still buy that form factor, when most need/use one PCIe slot for a high end dGPU and that's it. You might get better reception if you follow the general form factor trend.
That. The important part is that he clears out his shed.Well like @Red Squirrel just said, the person whom he gives it can install whatever OS they want on it.
Right you are. Larry could send a few computers to me, but all I could do is give them to my fellow clients at the place I live at if they want them.That. The important part is that he clears out his shed.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
Well, are you (or they) willing to pay for shipping, and two, do they mind / will they be happy using Linux? We're talking web-browser-esque boxes here.Right you are. Larry could send a few computers to me, but all I could do is give them to my fellow clients at the place I live at if they want them.
Thanks I find out what the shipping cost would be, but for a web browser box those specs will be fine and Linux Mint 19.x would be fine as well. I will be willing to walk them through the basics if needed.Well, are you (or they) willing to pay for shipping, and two, do they mind / will they be happy using Linux? We're talking web-browser-esque boxes here.
I'm not ready to give away my quad-core Ryzen rigs yet, nor my G4560 gaming rigs. I would prefer to sell those to someone that's willing to pay for them.
The other, slightly older, but still decently speedy (SSD) boxes, with Skylake or Haswell CPUs, maybe a few with Ivy Bridge, browser boxes, those I am willing to give away for shipping. They would generally have 4GB of RAM, and an SSD, and likely, Linux Mint 18 or 19.
I think nearly all of my boxes have HDMI out, and for those that don't, I have DVI-to-HDMI converters to plug into the mobo's DVI output, so that you can hook it up to an HDTV for a monitor if need be.
I'm going to say, that I think that I have around eight to give away? I have 4-5 AM1 boxes, all (I think) Sempron 3850 quad-cores (only 1.3Ghz, though can be OCed to 1.6Ghz in Windows, but Linux doesn't like that), and maybe 3, maybe 4, G3258 boards. Also a few Haswell Celeron G1820 boxes too. Without overclocking the G3258, it's stock at 3.2Ghz, and the Celeron is like 2.8Ghz or so, maybe 2.7Ghz, there's not whole huge difference, without overclocking. Pretty sure every G3258 CPU is in an overclockable H81 board, though.How many systems do you have in your shed?
I'll take a look there then. But I'll ask around to see if anyone here would want them first. But yeah let us help you with your hoarding and your addition to PC building.I'm going to say, that I think that I have around eight to give away? I have 4-5 AM1 boxes, all (I think) Sempron 3850 quad-cores (only 1.3Ghz, though can be OCed to 1.6Ghz in Windows, but Linux doesn't like that), and maybe 3, maybe 4, G3258 boards. Also a few Haswell Celeron G1820 boxes too. Without overclocking the G3258, it's stock at 3.2Ghz, and the Celeron is like 2.8Ghz or so, maybe 2.7Ghz, there's not whole huge difference, without overclocking. Pretty sure every G3258 CPU is in an overclockable H81 board, though.
I'm going to move the actual giveway of some of these boxes (I guess I'm going to do this, to clear up some space and find some decent homes for these boxen), to the proper AT Forum venue, the "Free Stuff Thread", found in the Hot Deals forum. You all can place your dibs on them there, this thread will continue to be a discussion thread about hoarding and PC building.
Well I wouldn't want to use a laptop for my main system but they have their uses as do tablets.Larry isn't doing nothing wrong. I admire him. I hate laptops and tablets.
It's called Steam Play but you have to enable it and it is also beta right now.I don't know much about Linux but I was watching a video by Linus saying there is an App on steam that allows jusT ABOUT any steam game to work with Linux
Over 1,000 Steam games work on Linux with the compatibility update
https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-linux-play-windows-games
Regarding the article on the dangers and pitfalls of post-life waste ... I was talking to my wife the other day about the long-term situation with nuclear power plant spent fuel and the plants themselves. I had looked forward to Yucca Mountain opening up fully and being used and based that, in part, on what I had learned in the very late 1980's and very early 1990's when I did research for a debate on nuke vs. PV solar.https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...-literally-catch-fire/?utm_term=.b5eeb0b8d847
This article also gives me pause. I've got a number of "lipstick batteries" (cell-phone chargers, vaguely shaped like a large lipstick container), and "battery packs", floating around my place. I bought a whole ton of them off of ebay from BestBuy. While they are quality name-brands (PNY), I still am concerned that I may have already lost track of some of them, and in a few years, when the charge dissipates, they might become flammable. I don't want my apt., nor my neighbors, to burn down.
Some of these might be older, likely Beige boxes ...how do you know future generations won't be in a post-apocalyptic state where they worship to the story of the all-knowing black boxes?
do the right thing and set up an underground temple for them in the backyard
heresy and the ones almighty Dell warned us aboutSome of these might be older, likely Beige boxes ...
how do you know future generations won't be in a post-apocalyptic state where they worship to the story of the all-knowing black boxes?
do the right thing and set up an underground temple for them in the backyard
I'm sure that there are a pile of under-served schools that would love to have them.