<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio@jdpfu.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:48:49 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Place to buy desktop in Atlanta<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 02/25/2016 03:41 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:<br>> You could just get the parts and build one from MicroCenter - no OS license<br>> required.<br>> <br><br>Plus for $150, you'd have an amazing upgrade.<br>Microcenter generally has the cheapest CPUs - even less than online. Get the CPU<br>and MB there, then reuse everything else from the current box.<br><br>30 minutes to put it together - move the old HDD over and you'll be running just<br>like before. Only thing that you may want to clean up is eth0 in the udev/rules<br>....<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is not really a bad idea. Current box has 380W PS. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I could just use SSD as root and then put my 1T in there and work off it. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I have it up and running. CPU fan needs replacing. It is hobbling along. I'm not sure about the video. I left for lunch, came back and it was locked. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>After working to get it up, video was screwy and I see this nasty message 'GPU fallen off bus'. I've poked the fan to get it going and reved up. It is stable now. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>My NVIDIA issues started when I moved from 12.10 to 15.04. I do not do upgrades. I did a fresh install.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>