[Chester LUG] Old desktop needed

Thomas Prophett thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk
Tue Aug 7 18:01:13 UTC 2012


Hi Paul

I don't have any spare full systems.

But I do have a motherboard with an Athlon64 3000+ & 512MB of ram if
that is any use to you? I'm quite sure the motherboard supports PCI &
has an AGP.

~ Thomas.

On 6 August 2012 22:17, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> The kids' old Dell desktop has died a death.
>
> Has anyone got an old tower they want rid of that can do the same job?  I'm
> hoping I can salvage stuff from their old one.  It currently has a few IDE
> hard discs, a couple of gigs of DDR1 RAM and an old 256MB PCI (not E) nvidia
> card.  It was running Ubuntu 10.10 and was used for films, tux paint and
> Angry Birds (under wine).  It has monitor, keyboard and mouse, just needs a
> new tower.
>
> I had hoped that an old eeepc or my wife's old laptop might do the job, but
> one isn't up to it and the other has problems booting.
>
> Can anyone help?  I can't afford to spend much (if anything), but might be
> able to spring to a few beers.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
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