Master Boot Record 7031

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:29:11 +0000, Kevin the Drummer

Now where did I hear that suggestion before?

Re-reading the whole thread, If it were my money involved, I'd get a new 120 GB, or larger, hard drive, and then wrap a new computer around it. No joke.

In todays world, a 233 Pentium II is really not worth trying to run a modern desktop OS from. I just rebuilt my main home computer because it was just too slow to do decent video processing, my latest plaything with Linux. It was a 500 MHz Athlon, that benchmarked as a 815 MHz Pentium, with 384 MB of RAM installed. I plan to use the components in a cheap box, as a back-up unit, kid's game computer, and something the grandkids can do homework reports on, as word processors and such still work fine.

This is a machine that has a CPU that is almost four times faster than the 233, and has three times the memory. I just checked at

and you can get an athlon 1800 XP CPU for $58.00, a Biostar MB for it for $29.00, 512 MB pc2700 memory for $37.00, a heat sink-fan combo for $6.00, and a 120 GB hard drive for $50.00. That's $180.00, that combined with the present case, power supply, video card, CD-Rom etc. gives you a reasonably decent, much more modern computer, that can run either Windows XP, or better yet, any Linux distro, even with KDE or Gnome. It's hardly world clbutt, but mbuttively better than the P II, and a lot of bang for not too many bucks.

I don't know if you've ever built, of rebuilt a computer, but there's not much to it. It's just a bunch of modules that you plug together.

I knew I'd heard that somewhere before. ;-)

You're welcome.

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