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I'm not a 'tech whore' which means that I don't rush out and buy bleeding edge computer junk..
In fact, I build my own home PCs and pretty much have fallen out of the loop on that..even..
Which leads me to my latest computer adventure.. my old trusty and lately, kinda slow, Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook PC.. When bought in 05 she sported a whopping 1.6 ghz Intel Celeron processor with a 533 mhz front side bus (FSB) and an exlillerating 512 megabytes (remember those) of ram.. A decent 16:9 WXGA display capable of 1900x1200 pixels. Radeon x300 video, decent built in speakers.. Paid a decent sum for it new.
Fast forward 7 years and severel hunderd thousand miles, after all she rode Shotgun, seat belted in the passenger seat of the Peterbilt, she is starting to show her age.
Fear not, remember, with computers, ya snooze ya win.
I'm 1/3 the way thru Hotrodding this jewel.. just (and I mean JUST) got thru installing 2 gigs (used) of RAM in this baby! (up from 512 megs- half a gig) so YA, big difference.
The cost, $8..
On the way is a new used processor.. A 2 gig Intel Dothan 533FSB.. I've already flashed the BIOS with the latest ware (A09) for this move. I may post the swap in this thread for funzies.
The cost, $9.99 shipped..
Storage is fine for now.. looking for a hard drive that has more RPM than the 60 gig job in there now.. So far so good on this drive and it's health..
I gotta feed the Nerd cells every now and then...:hihi:
In fact, I build my own home PCs and pretty much have fallen out of the loop on that..even..
Which leads me to my latest computer adventure.. my old trusty and lately, kinda slow, Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook PC.. When bought in 05 she sported a whopping 1.6 ghz Intel Celeron processor with a 533 mhz front side bus (FSB) and an exlillerating 512 megabytes (remember those) of ram.. A decent 16:9 WXGA display capable of 1900x1200 pixels. Radeon x300 video, decent built in speakers.. Paid a decent sum for it new.
Fast forward 7 years and severel hunderd thousand miles, after all she rode Shotgun, seat belted in the passenger seat of the Peterbilt, she is starting to show her age.
Fear not, remember, with computers, ya snooze ya win.
I'm 1/3 the way thru Hotrodding this jewel.. just (and I mean JUST) got thru installing 2 gigs (used) of RAM in this baby! (up from 512 megs- half a gig) so YA, big difference.
The cost, $8..
On the way is a new used processor.. A 2 gig Intel Dothan 533FSB.. I've already flashed the BIOS with the latest ware (A09) for this move. I may post the swap in this thread for funzies.
The cost, $9.99 shipped..
Storage is fine for now.. looking for a hard drive that has more RPM than the 60 gig job in there now.. So far so good on this drive and it's health..
I gotta feed the Nerd cells every now and then...:hihi:
