16megs of RAM wouldn't be the problem, that was quite a bit at the time. A 486 was the low bar for CPU performance though.
Be a man - put NT 3.51 on it!
Be a man - put NT 3.51 on it!
have a look orund - there are a number of manufactures who are making shorter length cards given the increase in popularity of smaller footprint systems.
Seem to be referred to as Nano or Mini
Did Compaq ever sell re-badged PB's?
For the first time in quite a number of years I' m thinking of building my own pc again. Question is should I go Ryzen or Kabylake? I don't want to build a gaming machine specifically but instead a Linux box with a level 2 hypervisor (Vbox or Player). I need at least 32GB of memory to support several virtual machines (p2v copies of my current machines). A Ryzen 7 1700 8 cores 16 hyperthreads seems a good choice at the moment for performance/price but motherboard choice is also important. I don't need water cooling support as I won't be overclocking. I do need support for 32GB+ of DDR4 ram. Graphics card doesn't need to be that powerful as long as I can play Civ, KSP and similar games - I have no time for FPS. SSD, hard drive and BD-RW I already have. I guess I also need a new case but not a fancy LED gaming monster like so many cases seem to be. I'm thinking I can get the parts (MB, CPU, RAM, graphics card and case) for less than $1000. Is that unrealistic?
I did have a quick look and saw some powerful (relatively I guess) cards that were shorter, but the nano's hadn't popped up on the radar. Just seen those and they do look nice .Bit pricier than I'd hoped though
As always it comes down to budget and bang for buck.
Yon can find a review feating the Ryzen 7 1800 here http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170...-7-review-a-deep-dive-on-1800x-1700x-and-1700
Singled threaded work and the Intel chips have a decent performance advantage but if you're virtualising then you're probably gonna get the benefits of multi-threading and then it becomes a lot closer race and AMD pulls ahead on the bang/buck scale.
To muddy the waters Intel is refreshing the Kaby Lake range. The mobile CPU refreshes have been announced with the desktop parts being announced as we head into Autumn.
And then there's Coffee Lake coming later this year. Intel is making peoples heads hurt trying to keep track of things.
One thing that is known - Coffee lake will require a different motherboard from Kaby lake.
Fuck it - just go Ryzen for simplicity
Guess your case and motherboard are going to be determined by the memory kit. If you're a 32GB (2 x 16GB) kit fits the budget you might be able to go down the M-ITX path and build a pretty compact system
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11473/asrock-miniitx-x370-gaming-itxac
I built a i5 system a few years back with a similar ASRock board and it hasn't missed a bit.
Here you go.. Oh and my bad memory, sorry it was Packard Bell.
One PC they could not use in the oval office.
Nope - not in the US at least. I'm pretty sure they never did anywhere...
Now, the only place left selling "Compaq" computers is in Brazil:
http://www.compaq.com.br/
I thought I'd ask. I remember there were rebadged electronics, like Sanyo as Montgomery Wards and other instances. There might have been computers as well.
This happens a lot with powersuplies, there are only a handfull of companies that actually make them, for example BeQuiet! can have FSP as OEM or Seasonic, depending on what kind of powersuply they want, a while ago ASUS had the Atlas which was actually one made by Delta Electronics, same goes for LCD panels etc.
So at the end of the day you hope who's name is actually on the product you buy care enough about their reputation to ship utter shit.
The side is off my pc at the moment so can see its branded as corsair, my old athlon x3 system has a cooler master and my server has Supermicro but I guess odd are none of those companies actually made them.
Depending on the series Corsair has used Seasonic, these are more than excelent, Cooler Master, depends on what series, some are not good, some very nice, they use three or maybe even more OEM's, SuperMicro will probably use Delta or another OEM that makes server powersuplies.
One more annoying fact is that an OEM will build powersuplies to spec of the client, there is a basic design but the client gets to tell what capacitors to use and so on, also how efficient it needs to be and so on.
However, you get what you pay for, you dish out 30 bucks for a 350 watt PSU, fine, there are 60 buck 350 watt PSU's as well, guess why..
One more annoying fact is that an OEM will build powersuplies to spec of the client, there is a basic design but the client gets to tell what capacitors to use and so on, also how efficient it needs to be and so on.
However, you get what you pay for, you dish out 30 bucks for a 350 watt PSU, fine, there are 60 buck 350 watt PSU's as well, guess why..
Does Thermaltake make their own PS's, HDD docks, etc.?
I'm sure I've seen a double SATA dock identical to the Thermaltake one I have, so I was never sure who actually made the damn thing. Regardless, it's a handy accessory.
I have a Corsair PSU which I used in place of the Cooler Master one I had on hand. Bought that because people say they last longer due to better build quality. I tend to agree because on the Cooler Master one the connectors are never 100% secure when plugged into the PSU. They just never held firm. The Corsair unit performs a lot better too and is almost silent.
I have a Thermaltake case. I have their level 10 GT snow edition. Butt ugly case to everyone around me but I love it, but due to my changing mood I put everything back into my HAF XB case...
The CM case I switched back to...
I have a Thermaltake case. I have their level 10 GT snow edition. Butt ugly case to everyone around me but I love it, but due to my changing mood I put everything back into my HAF XB case...
The CM case I switched back to...
The largest and fastest machines I have use: game rig: Antec P-183 v3, my old game rig: Cooler Master CM 690, and my most powerful Linux Rig has a Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P50, didn't buy that last one, it was given to me by a friend who switched to laptops only because he's on the move a lot.
The Medion case I got now houses a AMD Phenom II 905e which is hilariously superior to the Pentium 4 2.66 which used to live in there, I fixed the door that kept falling off, the plastic guiding notches that kept it in the slide rail had been worn away and since the mainboard of the Phenom II hasn't got a floppy connector I just bolted it to the casing, I made a 92x92mm front intake fan holder so it now blows in quite some air, at the back it has a 80x80mm exhaust fan, the casing itself is quite nice, a bit obsolete and has no front USB and the like but it is really sturdy.
I did have to revert to AMD stock cooling for this machine because of space constraints.
I used a second Medion casing to put in the original hardware except for the graphics card, I wanted to clean it but when I unscrewed the fan it literally fell apart so it is using a FX 5200, it is a surprise that these things are still used a lot, they weren't great but I am almost sure it actually can beat the Gf 400MX in performance..
The Medion case I got now houses a AMD Phenom II 905e which is hilariously superior to the Pentium 4 2.66 which used to live in there, I fixed the door that kept falling off, the plastic guiding notches that kept it in the slide rail had been worn away and since the mainboard of the Phenom II hasn't got a floppy connector I just bolted it to the casing, I made a 92x92mm front intake fan holder so it now blows in quite some air, at the back it has a 80x80mm exhaust fan, the casing itself is quite nice, a bit obsolete and has no front USB and the like but it is really sturdy.
I did have to revert to AMD stock cooling for this machine because of space constraints.
I used a second Medion casing to put in the original hardware except for the graphics card, I wanted to clean it but when I unscrewed the fan it literally fell apart so it is using a FX 5200, it is a surprise that these things are still used a lot, they weren't great but I am almost sure it actually can beat the Gf 400MX in performance..
okay.. a fresh Win XP install for the rebuild Medion, this machine will never go online, haven't installed XP on a machine in years.. the advertising is now hilarious.. drivers are still available for the machine, will have to do some digging around but I already found a more recent BIOS and drivers for the modem/TV card, the mainboard is quite good, caps are all Rubicon and the board was made by MSI for some reason they made nigh indestructible P4 boards, I keep running into them and I have a stack of MS-6526's lying around, all discarded all with Pentium 4's between 1.4 and 2.2Ghz, they all still work.. 
