Will you be upgrading the processor and motherboard anytime soon?
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Gudanov - Dec 01, 2008 9:53:39 am PST #8203 of 25501
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Jon B. - Dec 01, 2008 9:54:25 am PST #8204 of 25501
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But look at the specs. How much on board RAM does it have? And how much warranty it has.
Mmmn. Good point. The Seagate has a 5 year warranty (vs. 3 for the WD) and 32MB cache (vs. 16MB for the WD). The WD supposedly uses less power, but I think the Seagate wins out.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2008 9:57:03 am PST #8205 of 25501
brillig
Will you be upgrading the processor and motherboard anytime soon?
Probably, but not to anything top end. I inherit most of my computer parts from the tech heads who need the newest and hottest. I'm going to have multiple options that are unknown at this point, but I'd like to have a list of recommendations.
Gudanov - Dec 01, 2008 10:05:52 am PST #8206 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Here is the problem. A Pentium 3 motherboard will have an AGP interface for the video card. A newer system, even a low end system will have a PCI Express interface for the video card, so you won't be able to carry over the video card. There are a lot more options for PCI Express as well.
If you want to get an AGP card I'd go for for something like this.
POWERCOLOR X1650PRO 256/64 AGP Radeon X1650PRO 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail
Anything more powerful will be too limited by the CPU to make the money worth it. For that matter, this card might be overkill as well.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2008 11:17:53 am PST #8207 of 25501
brillig
A newer system, even a low end system will have a PCI Express interface for the video card, so you won't be able to carry over the video card.
Aha, very good to know, thanks.
javachik - Dec 01, 2008 1:09:00 pm PST #8208 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Hi all:
For those of you with pdas/iPhones, are you able to designate a different sound alert for each of your mailboxes? For instance, you have 2 different Yahoo pop accounts, both accessed through your pda. Can you differentiate sounds? And if not for Yahoo accounts, what about Microsoft Exchange? Can you set up a sound for MS Exchange vs. Yahoo?
Thanks for any info you can share. As background, I've got a Treo 750, and used to have no problem with having one sound for work email and one for personal, as we had Good Messaging software for work and it came with its own sounds. We've migrated to not using Good Messaging software and now all of my email is stuck with the same sound. I've confirmed on the Treo website that this is the case.
When I upgrade to either an iPhone or something else (soon), I want to be SURE that I can have different sounds for different email accounts.
Vortex - Dec 01, 2008 1:32:46 pm PST #8209 of 25501
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With an iPhone, you can only designate one sound per event (email, text, calendar reminder, etc.). Also, the sounds can't be altered or added, you're stuck with what they've got on the phone (unless you hack the phone). This will probably change at some point, though.
javachik - Dec 01, 2008 1:33:21 pm PST #8210 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks, Vortex!
omnis_audis - Dec 01, 2008 1:33:39 pm PST #8211 of 25501
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not with the iPhone as far as I can tell.
le nubian - Dec 01, 2008 4:14:42 pm PST #8212 of 25501
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java, with my Nokia N95 - no. one sound for email. that's it.