PBW in the market for some new hardware

Atrocities · #1 April 13th, 2006, 11:10 AM

I can pitch in a CD Rom or two, an old 3dfx video card, and mybe an old 10gig or higher HDD to the cause.

Thermodyne · #2 April 13th, 2006, 12:16 PM

Hey Geo, I've got some systems I could part with. What I have in mind is a AMD 3000 NF2 syatem. I can put a pair of new 40gig drives in it. You'll need to find a 512meg stick of ddr, it only has 512 in it IIRC. PM me

rdouglass · #3 April 13th, 2006, 04:19 PM

To go with Thermo's box, I've got a few 256 Mb DDR PC2100 RAM but no 512. I have plenty of 512 PC133 but not DDR.

And I can probably come up with other things as well if we have a specific shopping list. I have quite a bit of hardware just waiting to be used.

Thermodyne · #4 April 13th, 2006, 04:49 PM

NForce 2 boards should really have Ddr 400, if we can come up with some.

Parasite · #5 April 14th, 2006, 06:21 PM

We have a computer store that one week sold 200Gb hard drives for $90 with a $75 rebate. I got one, but since my motherboard has a maximum of 30Gb drives allowed that is what it is formated for. What a waste. :-( If I could get a 30Gig one and copy everything over I would be happy to trade.

Thermodyne · #6 April 14th, 2006, 07:02 PM

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Parasite said:
We have a computer store that one week sold 200Gb hard drives for $90 with a $75 rebate. I got one, but since my motherboard has a maximum of 30Gb drives allowed that is what it is formated for. What a waste. :-( If I could get a 30Gig one and copy everything over I would be happy to trade.

There are two workarounds for that problem. Most boards have newer drivers that add support for drives larger than 30 gigs. And the drive suppliers have little apps to make the really big drives usable. Some boards need both, some just need the app form the drive company.