Comments inline:
> Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Not a motherboard guy, so I can't comment.
> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000 + Socket 939
Fairly new, 64 bit, middle of the power band. Nothing wrong with it, not
the most current
> Video: MSI FX 5500 T128
Pretty low-end. Fine for photo work, wouldn't be a good solution for
video/TV, etc.
> Memory: 1 GB. Kingston
More is always better.
> HD: 2 HD 120 GB each @7200, RAID - Seagate SATA
Raid 0 or 1? I'd break the Raid array and have two drives.
> Optical Drives: one DVD 16X burner (dual layer?)
> another DVD reader / CD-R
Dual layer disks are too expensive anyway
> Connectivity: 3 Firewire
> 6 USB 2
> Paralell
> Video (still don't know if Composite, S-VHS or
> what)
A 5500 would be unlikely to have composite. Probably DVI and perhaps S-VHS.
Might have a DVI and a VGA and an S-VHS
> 2 Audio in & Audio out
> Cabinet: Topower
> Power Supply: 400 watts. "Reales con corrector de factor de potencia"(?).
> Floppy disk drive.
> Ethernet Gigabit -10/100/1000
Gigabit good :) I have gigabit throughout the house, but I do all my TV
watching through our PC network, so..........Gotta move that 1.5TB somehow.
>
> Precio U$S 850.-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile" <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:10 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT computer advice needed
> on 5/05/2006 20:56, Tom Scales at tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wrote:
>
>> Well, I don't know prices where you are, but I wouldn't pay anywhere near
>> that price for it. That's a $350 machine these days, tops.
>>
>> You could get a nice Dell for less :)
>>
>> Tom
> Thanks Tom, the price tag gap you found surprising seems to be adequate
> here.
> And no Dell with this configuration, afaik.
> What about the hardware itself, nothing to write home about?
>
> Fernando.
>
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