Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-22 Thread Gillian Densmore
@Ray Yeah for it's age my monitor has aged fairly well (oddly). It works realy well at 1120 by I don't recall what.possibly 1020. I suspect what ever I get will both be awsome and have it's own small quirks will probably be an enjoyable improvement over my now infamous del ^_^ I tried my hand

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-22 Thread Parks, Raymond
On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > @Ray I'd think it's problematic to upgrade a CPU. Where as cards are meant > to give a little more life. Not necessarily. The X79 chipset boards with LGA2011 sockets, first released in 201, supported Sandy Bridge-E/EP and Ivy Bridge-E/EP

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-22 Thread Gillian Densmore
@Ray I'd think it's problematic to upgrade a CPU. Where as cards are meant to give a little more life. The budget systems guides sugest 8 gigs of ram. In my experience that isn't enough. 16 gigs would likely give way more room for Winderz (or Linux) A SSD drive might also add a little more pep.

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-22 Thread Parks, Raymond
I'm not sure if anyone knows yet, but Win10 (MS Spyware) should upgrade for free. Give Microsoft's past and current emphasis on licensing, particularly in Enterprise systems, I suspect that the free upgrades will cease in the future and a new version of Windows will come out, requiring one buy

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-21 Thread Owen Densmore
Just looked at the systems built for between $400-$800. http://pcpartpicker.com/guide/#X=39404,82077&sort=d3&page=1 I sorted it by date because I found that several parts were no longer available when sorting by popularity. Also, the OS was $90 generally for Windows 8.x, and often left off the

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-21 Thread Parks, Raymond
Answers in-line below Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Gillian Densmor

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-21 Thread Gary Schiltz
Exactly the geeky guy I had in mind :-) Another nice thing about building the system from scratch is that you get to decide which parts are important enough to you to spend a lot of money on. Since I’m not a gamer, I’d just use a motherboard with built-in graphics (maybe most of them do) and see i

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-21 Thread Gillian Densmore
What (if any) realistic benifits are there to building a computer yourself these days? And does anyone have opinions or experience with Cybertron(PC)? I found them on a random google search. One in particular here people seem fairly content with: http://www.amazon.com/CybertronPC-Hellion-TGM12

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: The DEL hilarity continues

2015-12-21 Thread Parks, Raymond
This. I just got to this thread (still active) today because I was out ill, but my next personal desktop will be built by me consulting with the Tech Report System Guide . For Gillian's stated purpose, I would recommend something along t