I have recently replaced/upgraded some of my kit and I now have two older machines surplus to requirements. Before I advertise on e-bay (or cheapcycle) I thought I would offer then to ALUG members.
The machines are both full tower systems and have new clean installs of Debian 5 desktop. (Before OS installation both machines were DBAN'd so I'm reasonably comfortable that I am not leaking any private information.)
Specs are:
Machine 1
ECS P4M800 PRO motherboard Pentium 4 650 (3.4GHz dual core) 2 Gig DDR2 RAM 1 DVD writer (with integral additional 2 USB ports and multicard reader) 2 * SATA Disks (1 at 200 Gig, 1 at 320 Gig) ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics card 1 additional PCI 10/100 ethernt card
Machine 2
MSI 7253 Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2 Gig DDR2 RAM 2 * DVD writer 2 * IDE disks (1 at 150 Gig, 1 at 250 Gig) Nvidia Geforce 7300 graphics card 1 additional 802.11 PCI wifi card
Neither machine is blindingly fast by current standards, but either would make reasonable second use desktop machines or file/print/web servers.
I am asking £75.00 for machine 1 and £65.00 for machine 2.
Mick
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mick wrote:
I have recently replaced/upgraded some of my kit and I now have two older machines surplus to requirements. Before I advertise on e-bay (or cheapcycle) I thought I would offer then to ALUG members.
Nibbling - how many slots and of which type has each motherboard?
(Very slow connection here for looking-up such info online)
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:16 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
mick wrote:
I have recently replaced/upgraded some of my kit and I now have two older machines surplus to requirements. Before I advertise on e-bay (or cheapcycle) I thought I would offer then to ALUG members.
Nibbling - how many slots and of which type has each motherboard?
(Very slow connection here for looking-up such info online)
MSI board has:
1 * PCIE (filled with graphics card)
2 * PCI slots (one free)
2 * DIMM slots (filled with RAM)
ECS board has:
1 * AGP slot (filled with graphics card)
3 * PCI slots (two free)
2 * DDR 184 pin SDRAM slots (empty)
2 * DDR2 240 pin SDRAM slots (filled)
Mick
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mick wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:16 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
MSI board has:
1 * PCIE (filled with graphics card)
2 * PCI slots (one free)
2 * DIMM slots (filled with RAM)
ECS board has:
1 * AGP slot (filled with graphics card)
3 * PCI slots (two free)
2 * DDR 184 pin SDRAM slots (empty)
2 * DDR2 240 pin SDRAM slots (filled)
Oh, thanks for counting.
Neither has enough, probably, unless some of the functions I want (excluding sound and video) are onboard.
While faster than my old (and I mean old) AMD 900 and associated bits, I want to fit a good soundcard, a good graphics ditto, an UW SCSI, Firewire, network, modem and - er - I'm sure there was something else...
At a pinch, I have an external modem for a serial port.
Ah yes - the other card was a SATA for more spinningthings.
If either comes anywhere near permitting these functions (forgetting the extra SATA card), I'd be nibbling.
On 28/07/10 13:27, mick wrote:
I have recently replaced/upgraded some of my kit and I now have two older machines surplus to requirements. Before I advertise on e-bay (or cheapcycle) I thought I would offer then to ALUG members.
I would be interested in machine #2 if nobody else gets to it first.
nev
nev young wrote:
On 28/07/10 13:27, mick wrote:
I have recently replaced/upgraded some of my kit and I now have two older machines surplus to requirements. Before I advertise on e-bay (or cheapcycle) I thought I would offer then to ALUG members.
I would be interested in machine #2 if nobody else gets to it first.
I'll pass on it - I was weighing-up that one, but I don't think it will do all the things I want a box to do.
Certainly No 1 won't.
I might have to revise my demands - or get a Mac...
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:47:50 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I'll pass on it - I was weighing-up that one, but I don't think it will do all the things I want a box to do.
Certainly No 1 won't.
I might have to revise my demands - or get a Mac...
Nev took it. Enjoy....
(A Mac? for 75 quid?)
Mick
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On 29/07/10 17:47, Anthony Anson wrote:
I'll pass on it - I was weighing-up that one, but I don't think it will do all the things I want a box to do.
Certainly No 1 won't.
I might have to revise my demands - or get a Mac...
Aye because your PCI Modem etc will work well on that, so then you are onto PPC era machines which still had built in modems, Which the current version of OSX doesn't support. :)
If you want to replace the machine I think you may need to re-examine your requirements as to expansion cards. Modern machines come with a fair wack of SATA ports, Integrated NIC's are the norm now. on anything 21st century the integrated sound hardware can be quite reasonable too and again is the norm. On Board firewire is reasonably common on higher end mainboards. USB modems are cheap and plentiful still (although nearly always softmodems so watch that linux compatibility) if not then a trusty serial modem is always good....although check the board has a serial port, not all do now.
With the high level of integrated support now and most other devices being on USB plus the variety of PCI-E etc. It is common for modern mainboards to have less of each expansion port.
On 30/07/10 01:00, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
and again is the norm. On Board firewire is reasonably common on higher end mainboards.
My i7 machine has onboard firewire but I couldn't make it work, either with the Windows 7 install it came with or with Mandriva 64 bit. It eneded up going back to the dealer who built it. They said it was an incompatibility between the firewire components and the Sony camcorder I was using.
They stuffed a firewire card in and it's been rock solid ever since.
It's an MSI board by the way.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Some fine stuff - to which I replied to OS *AGAIN*!
(and again)
It was the Penderyn, Yer'Onner...
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