[Colchester] What rig are you running?

[Wayland Sothcott]

i was very keen on Mandrake back in the days I was running Pentium III 
with 256MB of RAM and a 20GB HDD.

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.

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.


On 13/08/2019 21:57, Martyn via Colchester wrote:
>
> You're "comfortable" with 130Mbps download? If I had that speed I'd 
> have to have a pile of tissues on my desk.
>
> Because I'd be crying with joy, not what you dirty minds thought. ;)
>
> 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.
> 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)))
>
> The rest of my kit is pretty lo-tech, 16gig ram, nVidia 560Ti 1gig, 
> onboard realtek sound, DvD, 4 speakers and woofer.
> 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.
>
> I was with mint from day one and I had Manjaro from day one too.
>
> We shall see.
>
> Keep in touch guys.
>
> Martyn
>
>
> On 11/08/2019 22:29, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
>> I'm assuming Linux but you might be on Windows. Here's mine
>>
>> RYZEN 5 1700
>> 16GB RAM
>> 240 NVMe SSD
>> 480 SATA SSD
>> VEGA 56 GPU
>> ASUS 1920x1080 23"
>> Dell keyboard and mouse
>>
>> OS Linux Mint 19
>> VirtualBox Windows 7 and Windows XP
>> Steam and various games under Proton
>>
>> Internet ASUS router with Virgin in Modem Mode, 200meg/20meg
>> Speedtest.net
>> Gotta love that ping :D
>> 'spozd to be 200 down but wrong time at night.
>>
>> 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.
>> It's actually pretty good at gaming but I have more enjoyment making 
>> the games work than playing them.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Wayland.
>>
>

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