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It was definitely fun and was a great learning experience. Bought the CPU card and the buss board (S100) but the rest of the cards were my design and were wire wrapped. A 4K RAM card, a dual serial port card to start.
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I'll late to this , but what the heck ...
I see buying a PC already built as outsourcing your PC or workstation requirements, versus building your own from parts that you have to research, trust and test to see if you get the performance and reliability that you need. It becomes time consuming, where that time could be spent on actually using the computer to perform your craft. The downside to building your own is that retail parts most times don't match the much higher quality of OEM built parts, like in the old days when you bought a retail hard drive, that drive was sub standard and didn't pass all the tests to be an OEM drive that a corporation would purchase.
I've been using Dell Precision workstations since 2011, and have no regrets. I just bought another last year (Dell 5820) and put a 10 core Xeon in it, and one of those NVidia cards RTX-A4000. I don't need gaming speeds, just reliability where I can run the computer for 12 hours straight with no issues, for at least a decade. As far as cost goes, it's almost the same to me, but the little details like not really needing tools to work on it is nice. But I have the computing power to do what you described no problem and really quick. You can call Jose at Dell for a good price if you choose this route. Just PM me for his email or phone number.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Discover my world at jkirkerx.com
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I built my current desktop machine based on recommendations found in a StackOverflow employee’s blogpost. I posted about this a couple years ago:
The Lounge
I’m sure things have changed, but I don’t regret building this machine, and as for hardware compatibility, might as well get advice from someone who’s successfully put the pieces together.
Toms hardware is another good resource.
Edit: dang it. Today I read an article about MSI’s software keys being stolen.
Cheers and good fortune whichever way you go.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
modified 12-May-23 10:36am.
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I just faced the exact same problem, and for the first time in 37 years it was cheaper (by more than $200) to buy a full desktop from Dell than it would for me to build my own using the same or similar components, even using the old case, power supply, and video card.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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BUILD
Why ?...
CRAPWARE
Building your own, and paying the ransomware prices to Microsoft for the real deal with real disks and everything, is the single best way to be sure that you are really getting "Clean Windows". My own experience: it's about the only way.
Not to mention fifty different reasons for a disk going bad. It happens. (I learned last month)
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"In the Enlightenment, there was a conceptual world based on faith. And so Galileo and the late pioneers of the Enlightenment had a prevailing philosophy against which they had to test their thinking. You can trace the evolution of that thinking. We live in a world which, in effect, has no philosophy;"
Obviously ethnocentric historically.
Not even sure how it applies to the modern world.
There are about 1.3 billion Catholics today. So certainly there is some philosophical viewpoint. And during the Enlightenment and before that they were certainly doing their best to force those Christian variations on the world they knew about. Naturally the 'ethics' of the Enlightenment in that regard doesn't really seem like an ideal that one should strive for. And obviously Galileo as a specific example of a less than ideal example of that.
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For better or worse, the States of Europe had a philosophy which most of them agreed upon. They may have fought over the details (e.g. Catholic vs Protestant) but it acted as a guideline to their view of the world. Other parts of the world had their own philosophical guidelines (Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, etc.). All new ideas were tested against these philosophies, and those propounding ideas that countered them ran considerable risks.
Many people still have personal guidelines based on these philosophies, but philosophical guidelines do not appear to exist at the State level. Any risks run are purely pragmatic, e.g. opposing the current rulers has always been a dangerous activity.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: For better or worse, the States of Europe had a philosophy which most of them agreed upon
Yes but the tone of the article implied that this was therefor 'good' (vs 'evil') and thus better than now.
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Wordle 690 5/6
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Wordle 690 4/6*
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That ... was not easy!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I got 4 letters on my first try, still took me 2 more attempts!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 690 6/6
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Wordle 690 4/6
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I went by esclusion but I passed upon this word at least a dozen times and failed to recognize it as a word 100% of times.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 690 3/6
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Down to two possibilities after starters, and guessed right for a change.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done getting that in three Peter
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 690 5/6
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Difficult set of letters.
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Wordle 690 3/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 690 4/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 690 5/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #473 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
easy one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Anyone hear from our master of ammunition and all things that go bang lately?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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