Yep. It was malware/evil cookies/adware . . . etc. It is devoutly to be wished that the new firewall will prevent that from happening in the future. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I love messing with computers so I decided that I'd use the casing is from a 1990's Compaq Deskpro EP for the hardware that was left after I upgraded my main machine.
it started out as a Pentium II 400 Mhz, I upgraded that to a Sempron 2400+ and a Sempron 145 AM2+/3 64 bit machine and now a AM1 Athlon 5350 machine. Quite a durable design that casing, they don't build them like that anymore. 8)
I got two Medion microtowers from around 2000, they were both Pentium 4 machines, 2.66Ghz, Geforce 4 graphics cards and FSP PSU's, they were quite well build, one of them now holds a Sempron 145 machine, the other one a FX 4300.. I left the outside as it was including the Pentium 4 stickers...
it started out as a Pentium II 400 Mhz, I upgraded that to a Sempron 2400+ and a Sempron 145 AM2+/3 64 bit machine and now a AM1 Athlon 5350 machine. Quite a durable design that casing, they don't build them like that anymore. 8)
I got two Medion microtowers from around 2000, they were both Pentium 4 machines, 2.66Ghz, Geforce 4 graphics cards and FSP PSU's, they were quite well build, one of them now holds a Sempron 145 machine, the other one a FX 4300.. I left the outside as it was including the Pentium 4 stickers...
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Ha!I love messing with computers so I decided that I'd use the casing is from a 1990's Compaq Deskpro EP for the hardware that was left after I upgraded my main machine.
it started out as a Pentium II 400 Mhz, I upgraded that to a Sempron 2400+ and a Sempron 145 AM2+/3 64 bit machine and now a AM1 Athlon 5350 machine. Quite a durable design that casing, they don't build them like that anymore. 8)
I got two Medion microtowers from around 2000, they were both Pentium 4 machines, 2.66Ghz, Geforce 4 graphics cards and FSP PSU's, they were quite well build, one of them now holds a Sempron 145 machine, the other one a FX 4300.. I left the outside as it was including the Pentium 4 stickers...
Just for fun, I've always wanted to build a modern computer and put it in a mid-90s Packard Bell tower.
As long it is ATX and you can use a normal ATX powersuply then nothing can stop you. 
As for why the powersuply, older ones like in the '90's and early 2000's are designs which have a strong 5 volt orientation while modern machines nowadays have PSU's that are delivering most power in 12 volt, the Compaq has a modern BeQuit! PSU, both Medion PC's also have new era PSU's
As for why the powersuply, older ones like in the '90's and early 2000's are designs which have a strong 5 volt orientation while modern machines nowadays have PSU's that are delivering most power in 12 volt, the Compaq has a modern BeQuit! PSU, both Medion PC's also have new era PSU's
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*Frankenstein tendencies intensify*
Go for it! It is fun to do.
at the same time the latest AM4 stuff is very nice.
Would love to build a system with a Ryzen 3k series with the integrated graphics in the smallest possible case that could be VESA mounted behind my monitor.
Couple of M.2 PCIe drives, 16GB, the thing would go like the clappers.
They definitely don't! I had to replace my case less than a year ago because I couldn't turn on my PC anymore one day. It literally ended up being the power button itself, which in that case was a design flaw due to how they got made with flimsy plastic. It just got pushed down one too many times and eventually broke and wouldn't make the needed connection anymore. I had to laugh when I found that out, as out of all technical possibities that could go wrong with a PC, it ended up being very simple and literal.
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Even the old white IBM PC style cases were pretty durable. Wish I had kept mine as an normal ATX board would have fitted in there with a bit of fiddling thinking about it in hindsight.
Yep, that happens, had to fix the powerbutton of a workstation at work which is used to operate a machine, same thing there, a small plastic rod had snapped and the remaining part of the powerbutton couldn't reach the switch anymore, put a small bolt in place and used epoxy resin to make sure that it would stay in place.
That's an ingenius fix! I wouldn't have thought about that. They really should make them out of metal, because in the end they're a point of failure due to repetitive use and the fact that they lack reinforcement. Guy I bought my replacement from said he gets a lot of those back due to their flimsy nature, and what he does to reinforce them is use caulking to give it a bit more resilience.
Plastic is okay as long it can't flex and bend, but that is the case with everything, they still do make sturdy cases though, they're pricy though.
I've got one huge Chieftec casing, a real oldfashioned big tower, it is made out of 1mm thick steel all around so it is very heavy, it houses a Pentium III 1 Ghz, back in the day when those were new they were top of the line and very fast, still runs Win2K.
I've got one huge Chieftec casing, a real oldfashioned big tower, it is made out of 1mm thick steel all around so it is very heavy, it houses a Pentium III 1 Ghz, back in the day when those were new they were top of the line and very fast, still runs Win2K.
Win2k was nice. Windows Me wasn't nice
In the beginning there was DOS, liked it very much, nowadays pure nostalgia, even bought the official IBM PC DOS 2000 CD, later on came Windows, liked 3.0, 3.11 for workgroups, 95 at first was iffy, it wanted 8MB RAM, the computer we had at that time had 4MB.. so for a while we tried OS/2 Warp 3, you could add parts of Widows 3.11 to it so it could run 3.11 programs.
Did switch to 95, when we bought a seriously fast Pentium 100 MHz machine with 16(!!!!) MB RAM, 98SE followed, that one was a great OS, used it on machines ranging from a K6 233 to a Pentium II 450, later on switched to Win2K which I used to the last day it was supported, skipped ME because I knew quite a few unhappy people who used it at that time, couldn't get along with XP at first but later on I came to like it, skipped Vista mostly, 7 was and is great, 8 was not bad with Classic Shell it was great, 8.1 I still use on the game rig, anything else runs Linux, started with OpenSUSE 11.xx , switched to Xubuntu 6.06 LTS and then to Linux Mint 13, since that day I've used Mint on all the laptops and desktops.
Still messing with the old Athlon64 X2 4800+ thing is a Brisbane core AM2 chip and it is quite the hot head, can't use a large cooler because of the tiny microtower, stock cooler did work but when pushed it would turn into a jet engine.. dug out a really old Thermaltake copper cooler, added a 80x80x25mm fan, Arctic F8 which runs at 2300RPM so at the moment while I'm typing this, idle temps are great for a chip of that kind, load temps also aren't bad both cores below 55c CPU temp itself below 46c not bad I would say, the machine is usable, can browse and youtube, will do 1080p but not 100% smoothly.
Did switch to 95, when we bought a seriously fast Pentium 100 MHz machine with 16(!!!!) MB RAM, 98SE followed, that one was a great OS, used it on machines ranging from a K6 233 to a Pentium II 450, later on switched to Win2K which I used to the last day it was supported, skipped ME because I knew quite a few unhappy people who used it at that time, couldn't get along with XP at first but later on I came to like it, skipped Vista mostly, 7 was and is great, 8 was not bad with Classic Shell it was great, 8.1 I still use on the game rig, anything else runs Linux, started with OpenSUSE 11.xx , switched to Xubuntu 6.06 LTS and then to Linux Mint 13, since that day I've used Mint on all the laptops and desktops.
Still messing with the old Athlon64 X2 4800+ thing is a Brisbane core AM2 chip and it is quite the hot head, can't use a large cooler because of the tiny microtower, stock cooler did work but when pushed it would turn into a jet engine.. dug out a really old Thermaltake copper cooler, added a 80x80x25mm fan, Arctic F8 which runs at 2300RPM so at the moment while I'm typing this, idle temps are great for a chip of that kind, load temps also aren't bad both cores below 55c CPU temp itself below 46c not bad I would say, the machine is usable, can browse and youtube, will do 1080p but not 100% smoothly.
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Ha!
Just for fun, I've always wanted to build a modern computer and put it in a mid-90s Packard Bell tower.
Looks better than the cheese grater.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/g...-reinvented-mac-pro-will-shred-your-workflow/
At least a stand didn't cost you a thousand bucks then:
https://gizmodo.com/how-ridiculous-is-apples-1-000-monitor-stand-really-1835237372
My favs in terms of looks.... The IMAC "flavors" and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM 1997)
I really don't see how the folks at Apple live with themselves.
More about that...
I love Auburn. it has a nice aerospace school:
https://www.eng.auburn.edu/aero/
Auburn university suffered a loss. Both parents of two great kids were lost
https://www.espn.com/college-sports...burn-radio-voice-wife-die-following-car-crash
And Tim Cook, an Auburn grad wrote a check for....$25,000.:
https://www.wsfa.com/2019/05/28/apples-tim-cook-gives-k-growing-bramblett-memorial-fund/
He could sneeze, and more change would fall out of his pocket.
I would at least have given a mil to each kid, so they'd lack for nothing.
I really do not understand people.
More about that...
I love Auburn. it has a nice aerospace school:
https://www.eng.auburn.edu/aero/
Auburn university suffered a loss. Both parents of two great kids were lost
https://www.espn.com/college-sports...burn-radio-voice-wife-die-following-car-crash
And Tim Cook, an Auburn grad wrote a check for....$25,000.:
https://www.wsfa.com/2019/05/28/apples-tim-cook-gives-k-growing-bramblett-memorial-fund/
He could sneeze, and more change would fall out of his pocket.
I would at least have given a mil to each kid, so they'd lack for nothing.
I really do not understand people.
may cheaper but there's not much faster than the top of the range specs but then you're looking at $US45,000 (excluding monitor) but that's gonna give you a 28 core xeon processor, 1.5TB of RAM, 4 top of the range video cards.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre...pro-how-much-top-spec-price-estimate-ballpark
I think I'd start with a dual socket Epyc board as foundation, bet you can create quite a nice machine out of that even if it is server hardwareit should be possible to use it..
Do people still play crysis?
/runs/
