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williegoat
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JUN 10, 02:47 PM
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I was bored so I channeled my inner geek.
It was past time to upgrade my OS to Debian Bullseye, and I got carried away. It is still the same old machine with a new case, PSU, SSD, USB3 PCIe card and some LEDs.
I don't play games so my old quad core Phenom II and 8 gigs of ram do everything I need.
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Let's go Brandon!
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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JUN 10, 05:18 PM
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Looks pretty fly, WillieGuy
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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 10, 05:50 PM
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Very nice, and GREAT job on hiding the flux capacitor !
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maryjane
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JUN 11, 03:02 PM
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can I have that old toothpick box?
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ls3mach
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JUN 12, 10:06 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
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I think I can still buy those in Okieville.
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ls3mach
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JUN 12, 10:12 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
I was bored so I channeled my inner geek.
It was past time to upgrade my OS to Debian Bullseye, and I got carried away. It is still the same old machine with a new case, PSU, SSD, USB3 PCIe card and some LEDs.
I don't play games so my old quad core Phenom II and 8 gigs of ram do everything I need.
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Of course you don't game you're runUnix.
Why that distro? What were you running? 8GB getting you by? The SSD I'm guessing it is a SATA2 mobo? The M.2 are insane, but at that age you likely wouldn't notice. I just added an SSD to a 2012 Dell laptop and with that and the RAM they were extremely happy. They could only run 8GB, but I put Win7 back on and that is typically adequate.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JUN 12, 11:49 AM
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It's kind of funny how computer "culture" has changed over time.
I got into computers in the mid to late 80s, but didn't really start working on them or building them until I was a teenager... say, ~1993.
This computer building crazy really took off in the mid 90s... with magazines like the Computer Shopper. As it is today, it was all about the graphics card, processor, and ram. I remember the old VESA Local Bus graphics cards, which were... what... 24-bit? Basically a really long 16-bit ISA card slot with an additional multi-channel slot on the end of it.
We go back and forth between light beige and black computers, whichever seems to be the most cool at any given time.
LEDs really help make a computer look like it's doing stuff, haha... and now they have actual water pumps with radiators for cooling the processor. it's so crazy. The computer I'm using has LED's in the grill... it's a Lenovo Legion T7, which has a Core i9 and whatever. But it has the 2080 GTX which at the time I got it I think was more or less just one model shy of the best. But it has water cooling in it, which is a bit much. The computer I had before that was one that I purchased in 2011... a Core i7. I'd used it for 9.5 years before I finally upgraded to this one... so I didn't mind spending the money on it.
I also really don't play games. I mean, I want to... but when I sit down and play a game, I feel like I'm wasting time because there's so many other things I SHOULD be doing.
I would love to take a year off, with no obligations, and nothing to do except spend time with the family, work out in the morning and play games the rest of the day... and occasional snorkling on the weekend. Sigh... by the time I retire, I'll be too old to fully enjoy any of it.
Deep thought tangent here...
I plan to retire as absolutely soon as I'm legally able to. The second any of my pensions or whatever allow early retirement, I'm taking it.
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williegoat
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JUN 12, 12:15 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
Of course you don't game you're runUnix.
Why that distro? What were you running?
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I have been using Debian for over 20 years. For me it is the most stable, versatile, highly configurable , no BS distro. It also has the biggest list of available packages.
Most other "popular" distros are really Debian with one hand tired behind their back. They are designed for a specific purpose, either to do one task (Kali, AVLinux) or to be less intimidating (Ubuntu, Mint). Willie don't play dat.
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8GB getting you by?
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Yeah, the heaviest things I run are GIMP and Ardour.
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The SSD I'm guessing it is a SATA2 mobo?
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Yes, Asrock K10N78M. I have two of them.
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The M.2 are insane, but at that age you likely wouldn't notice.
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Me or the MoBo?
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I just added an SSD to a 2012 Dell laptop and with that and the RAM they were extremely happy. They could only run 8GB, but I put Win7 back on and that is typically adequate.
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I had been wanting to try SSD and they are really cheap, nowadays. And like I said, I was bored. The biggest difference I noticed was in boot time and install time.
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Jake_Dragon
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JUN 12, 01:39 PM
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I added an M.2 to an old laptop that was using a spinning disk and almost unusable. I could not believe the difference, so I did the same with my desktop. Big difference between the SSD and the M.2 in performance and boot time.
If your computer supports M.2 drives I would suggest using one.
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A_Lonely_Potato
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JUN 13, 01:54 PM
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With yall talking about M.2, it should be said they are not equal. M.2 is just a physical connector. What is important is the communication protocol. You can get M.2 drives that still use the SATA III protocol, and will yield no benefit over a standard 2.5" SATA III SSD. You want to get an NVMe M.2 SSD. NVMe uses i believe 4 PCIe lanes, and is mind bogglingly faster than SATA. Both NVMe and SATA can be run on M.2 ports. Some M.2 ports only support SATA, but if it supports NVMe it likely supports both. Easiest way to tell if a drive is NVMe or SATA is by the connector, SATA has 2 gaps in the pins while NVMe only has one.
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