PBW in the market for some new hardware

Renegade 13 · #1 April 13th, 2006, 08:08 PM

If you need a graphics card for it, and the motherboard is PCI-Express compatible, I have a 6200 TC you could have. It's a piece of crap, but it's better than nothing. Might have a spare power supply lying around too, if I can find it...let me know if I should look for it. Think it's 350W.

Slynky · #2 April 13th, 2006, 10:15 PM

I think I have 2 HDs around not being used because they are small (26 GB and maybe a 32 GB). Seems like you've got offers of higher size than that but I thought I'd lay it out there just in case. The old drives that use the same ribbon cable as the CD drives do, not the newer SATA drives. (did I get that right?)

And before you dip into maintenance fund, I can send $50 to help with what others might not have available.

Just let me know.

Thermodyne · #3 April 13th, 2006, 10:25 PM

Well, with what I�m sending him, he could still use a CD reader and a floppy drive, along with some ddr 400 ram. I�m not sure what OS he runs, so perhaps he could use a license for that.

geoschmo · #4 April 13th, 2006, 11:27 PM

Fancy video card isn't really neccesary. I don't even have a monitor hooked up to it most of the time. I haven't looked at the specs on the MB Thermo is sending yet, but if it's got any sort of onboard video that will likely be sufficent.

I'd like to get a good writeable CD or DVD drive so I can start doing more regular backups. Those have really come down in price lately though so that shouldn't be too hateful for me to get on this end somewhere if noone has one.

I'll have to look at the memory in the current server. If that's what we need I could always move that over.

I'm guessing the box Thermo is sending already has a power supply in it.

The current server has a 40GB HDD, and I think Thermo said the new one will have two of those. I think that will probably be more then enough hard drive for the foreseeable future.

Of course donations are always accepted if anyone would like to do something like that Slykny.

Geoschmo

bearclaw · #5 April 14th, 2006, 12:49 AM

Floppy Drive yes, and possibly a CD-RW too. Not sure but I may even have a larger HDD that's not being used too. I'll check what I have when I get back home (on vacation right now).

I've also got some RAM sticks but I'm not sure what I've got until I get home to check too. I have a feeling that they are smaller though 256 max. But they are DDR.

Thermodyne · #6 April 14th, 2006, 01:46 AM

A thought on the hard drives...We really don't need to put PBW on used drives. Most data loss is caused by failed IDE hard drives. So if you have a new drive, that would be cool. But a used drive with unknown amuont of hours on it is asking for trouble.

What would be really nice if if someone wanted to kick in a little PCI raid card. Then Geo could set the drives up in a mirror. Something like a little Fasttrack 2000 would work great.

geoschmo · #7 April 14th, 2006, 11:14 AM

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Thermodyne said:
A thought on the hard drives...We really don't need to put PBW on used drives. Most data loss is caused by failed IDE hard drives. So if you have a new drive, that would be cool. But a used drive with unknown amuont of hours on it is asking for trouble.

With 80GB HDD's going for 50 bucks these days, you are probably right it makes sense just to buy a new one.

I can get another licensed copy of an operating system, so that's not a problem.

Thermodyne · #8 April 14th, 2006, 01:49 AM

Quote:

geoschmo said:
Fancy video card isn't really neccesary. I don't even have a monitor hooked up to it most of the time. I haven't looked at the specs on the MB Thermo is sending yet, but if it's got any sort of onboard video that will likely be sufficent.

I'd like to get a good writeable CD or DVD drive so I can start doing more regular backups. Those have really come down in price lately though so that shouldn't be too hateful for me to get on this end somewhere if noone has one.

I'll have to look at the memory in the current server. If that's what we need I could always move that over.

I'm guessing the box Thermo is sending already has a power supply in it.

The current server has a 40GB HDD, and I think Thermo said the new one will have two of those. I think that will probably be more then enough hard drive for the foreseeable future.

Of course donations are always accepted if anyone would like to do something like that Slykny.

Geoschmo

The mainboard has an onboard NVidia video chip and onboard LAN. It has sound too, for what it's worth.