{"id":259,"date":"2007-10-30T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/30\/a-partial-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:08:48","slug":"a-partial-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/30\/a-partial-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"A Partial Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My AthlonMP system is aging. Actually, it&#8217;s <em>aged<\/em>. It&#8217;s down to 512MB RAM (the other 512MB went bad a long time ago). BIOS updates ended 4 years ago, and the thing doesn&#8217;t seem to support drives over 137 GB or USB keyboards, two things that have worked for a <em>long<\/em> time. (Hint: it seems like a good idea at the time, but don&#8217;t buy a server-grade motherboard for your desktop. It <em>seems<\/em> better, but it&#8217;s all these little things that will get you.)<\/p>\n<p>I have a decent enough graphics card, a nice HDTV tuner, a DVD burner, 500\/200\/60\/40 GB drives, a <em>nice<\/em> keyboard, and a monitor. So all I need, really, is a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128017\">here&#8217;s a motherboard<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017\">the processor<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crucial.com\/store\/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=2DDBD4B2A5CA7304\">Here&#8217;s the RAM<\/a>, times two. Net cost? A little under $500. For a quad-core processor, 4 GB RAM, and a motherboard with GigE. Assuming, of course, that all you need is motherboard + processor + RAM. Which is the case for me. Granted, it also assumes that you have $500 to spend on computer upgrades&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Seems that the RAM might not be the best. Don&#8217;t take my word on it being the right thing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My AthlonMP system is aging. Actually, it&#8217;s aged. It&#8217;s down to 512MB RAM (the other 512MB went bad a long time ago). BIOS updates ended 4 years ago, and the thing doesn&#8217;t seem to support drives over 137 GB or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/30\/a-partial-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-materialism","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}