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i was very keen on Mandrake back in the days I was running Pentium
III with 256MB of RAM and a 20GB HDD.<br>
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If you're interested in an upgrade I do have a couple of AMD R9 290
GPUs. These really are powerful but also power hungry. I have one on
a system with a 350 watt PSU but I suspect it will crash if the card
ever wants to run at full speed. I'm building it now and I have yet
to try it.<br>
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Those FX processors are pretty powerful. I upgraded a PC with an
Athlon by plugging in one of those, totally transformed it from too
slow to use to looking for something difficult for it to do.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/08/2019 21:57, Martyn via
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<p>You're "comfortable" with 130Mbps download? If I had that speed
I'd have to have a pile of tissues on my desk.<br>
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Because I'd be crying with joy, not what you dirty minds
thought. ;)</p>
<p>My system is 14 years old, probably longer. I've been at this
address for that long and brought it with me,only one upgrade in
that time. <br>
I was in a position to get one of the very first AMD FX 8350
8core 4ghz CPU's in 2011. They didn't go retail for another 10
months. Still got it now. 8)))</p>
<p>The rest of my kit is pretty lo-tech, 16gig ram, nVidia 560Ti
1gig, onboard realtek sound, DvD, 4 speakers and woofer.<br>
It does me for my business, games and linux fun. Oh! Currently
running Opensuse for the Plasma desktop since Mint dropped it.
Thought I'd miss apt (get) but zypper and YAST absolutely ROCK.</p>
<p>I was with mint from day one and I had Manjaro from day one
too. <br>
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<p>We shall see. <br>
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<p>Keep in touch guys.</p>
<p>Martyn<br>
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I'm assuming Linux but you might be on Windows. Here's mine<br>
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RYZEN 5 1700<br>
16GB RAM<br>
240 NVMe SSD<br>
480 SATA SSD<br>
VEGA 56 GPU<br>
ASUS 1920x1080 23"<br>
Dell keyboard and mouse<br>
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OS Linux Mint 19<br>
VirtualBox Windows 7 and Windows XP<br>
Steam and various games under Proton<br>
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Internet ASUS router with Virgin in Modem Mode, 200meg/20meg<br>
<img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="https://www.speedtest.net/result/8493293841.png"
alt="Speedtest.net" height="200" width="350"><br>
Gotta love that ping :D<br>
'spozd to be 200 down but wrong time at night.<br>
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I'm really very comfortable on this system and have been getting
loads of work done including work on MS Access in Windows 7 VM.<br>
It's actually pretty good at gaming but I have more enjoyment
making the games work than playing them.<br>
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The trick with this system was building it all on NVMe then
'fstab'ing /home onto the bigger SSD. Those games and VMs take
up a lot of space.<br>
<br>
I do have some computer parts left over from this build like
motherboards and RAM and decent GPUs. Good price to a LUG
member. PM me.<br>
<br>
Wayland.<br>
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