--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After giving my son the top-of-the-line but out of date > PC,
There is a certain milestone in life that one of my friends passed a few years ago. Through the years he had given his outmoded computers to his kids when he upgraded. Then the day came that his son had to get a higher performance computer for his college work and gave his old one to Dad. > I decided to simply buy the cheapest PC I could find at Circuit > City (A USA based electronics chain). I have had the thing about > three years now and it still works perfectly, and runs all my > digital radio soundcard software without any trouble. One problem you might have with cheapo computers is that the power supplies typically omit any RF filtering. I bought one cheap case and power supply and found them to be very quiet; but another one from the same supplier was a prodigious broadband noise generator, even when the computer was turned off. I replaced it with an Antec supply that is pretty quiet. If you have a Dell computer and need to replace the power supply, beware that the connector pins are arranged differently from the standard ATX board, so you have to get a power supply made for Dell computers. Similarly if you have in mind to replace the mother board in a Dell box. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/3EuRwD/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
