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From: Peter Arsehole on 10 Apr 2010 00:57 On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:36:22 +0100, T i m arsed: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:32:16 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > Ceresole) wrote: > >>T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >> >>> What's that got to do with it? (and I guess you mean 'not updating'). >> >>No, T i m, I meant exactly what I wrote. Do read it again. > > Ah 'Not - or' .. gotcha (now ... but still not sure what AV has to do > with (not) upgrading. Why not say 'updates' in general?). > > Cheers, T i m T i m, T i m, you are talking to a typical Mac user and therefore someone who is technically challenged. For a Mac user, installing more RAM is equivalent to performing brain surgery. No, they just like to give Steve Hand Jobs their dosh, and that's the end of it. -- " I'll be sure to spare a chuckle when I see the report of your painful and brutal murder in the newspapers - it's bound to happen, given your loathesome opinions." Rowland McDonnell thinks murder is funny - 12 Dec 07
From: Rob on 10 Apr 2010 04:12 On 09/04/2010 23:18, T i m wrote: snip > > What I built is not only expandable but silent, low power and the > lowest cost you could find. > OTish, but what components did you use? Thanks, Rob
From: T i m on 10 Apr 2010 06:40 On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:11:43 +0100, Rob <patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Splendid, thanks very much! Lot of hard work there. You are welcome. > >I'm looking for a silent audio server/thing that can run iTunes (so I >can use an iTouch remote). Your system looks ideal, with my only >concerns being the PSU/case. I'd guess the PSU is running at at least >50W? By running do you mean consuming? Whilst experimenting with all this kit I was running a power monitor at the mains plug. The 39W I quoted you was the total power consumed by the entire system when running. It drops to 2W when hibernated (which it does whenever it can and part of the reason I went for laptop drives). An AMD 3000 based system running WHS and 2 x 3.5" drives was more like 50W for example (and was only 100M Ethernet). [1] > And the case would be a little large I think - I'm looking for >something that can sit by the hifi, like this perhaps: > >http://www.amazon.co.uk/Compucase-Mini-Front-Panel-Audio/dp/B001UHO7DS/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_text_b Yep, I saw those. > >Thing is, I can't figure out how quiet the PSU is. The problem is they either use a mini PSU (and hence small = noisy fan) or if you go very light,one of those bare micro PSUs (low power and quite expensive). > And not much >ventilation in there. Nope, especially if placed horizontally. The height of my midi tower aids the natural convection and with the drives at the bottom - front, mobo sort of in the middle and the PSU (with it's big, slow fan <g>) at the top - back the air moves very well. >Still . . . project for a rain day :-) Most of the work was in the planning, Googling for stuff that might be both affordable, easily available and do the job. I concluded I could start with this 20 quid case and if I happened across something better in the future I could easily swap it over. The other thought was to use the basic chassis from an old case, and install it in something more furniture alike, a d-i-y wooden case if you will. However, 'furniture' would look out of place in here! ;-) Cheers and good luck. T i m [1] From memory. Xbox = 65W. Xbox 360 = 95W, fairly loaded desktop PC = 100W, 42" Plasma 200-500W.
From: zoara on 10 Apr 2010 20:45 Colin Harper <colinharper(a)x.com.invalid> wrote: > > > I wonder if I'm unusual in upgrading Macs like this? I think I > probably am a > bit. You're unusual in upgrading computers like this, never mind Macs. Most people don't even upgrade RAM. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: James Dore on 12 Apr 2010 03:31
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:29:34 +0100, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:02:09 +0100, "James Dore" > <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:28:55 +0100, Peter Ceresole >> <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> I am not that old, and cope well with technical stuff. However, I >>>> can't >>>> be bothered now >>> >>> Yup. >> >> I grew out of it before I hit 30, having built dozens of machines from >> bits, bought, begged, borrowed, sto^h er, borrowed - some worked, some >> didn't, most ran windows, some ran Netware, some ran Linux. It was a >> tedious process which ended when I went all-mac at home. > > So why did you ever bother doing it? If you did it because you had to > (money etc) then there's the reason and justifiably why you wouldn't > necessarily enjoy it. At the time I was interested in such things, and had time on my hands. It was about the same time as my living room was full of Sun kit. When I had no girfriends. >> >> Actually that's a Lie - I have a homebrew blackbox with very modern >> hardware in it, which is supposed to be my home VM box running SLES 11 - >> but the PSU has had a funny and keeps switching off. I am now finding it >> very difficult to match a PSU to the motherboard. Sometimes too much >> choice is a bad thing.... > > Yup, choosing the wrong thing in the first place etc. ;-) Well no, it was the right one when I bought it eight months ago. Now it has failed I can't tell from all the various thousands of replacements which is the correct one. Needless to say this particular model is no longer made.... Cheers, -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new |