Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Mon Jun 20 12:26:51 CDT 2011
Bill: Good one! Thanks. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 10:11 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp Hi Rocky, Your son might be interested in this ZDNet article. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/building-a-barebones-budget-gaming-pc-for -under-550/13363?tag=nl.e539 Bill -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:21 AM To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: <heedleblambeedle at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp Thanks - will forward -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:10 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp Hi Rocky: If he does not want the drive but the new installation will be too time consuming, he can always image the old drive to the new computer drive. It is not guaranteed that the process will work but in the cases I have done this; there is a 90 percent conversion rate. The newer OSs are very flexible. If he wishes to follow this method simply add his old drive in the computer and set it to the boot drive and when the system has been configured and his old drive boot up, he can then export the revised boot drive image to other drive and switch the new drive to the boot drive. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:29 AM To: List; 'Off Topic' Subject: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp After a trip to Fry's Noah has spec'd a new comp to build. Any advice here? He's going to take the HD from his current box (7200rpm) and put it in the new box. He's doing some on-line gaming so the graphics card is important. (Myself - I think I'm going with the Dell i7 - ~$1000 but maybe a deal will pop up in the next couple days) TIA Rocky _____ From: Noah Sutton-Smolin [mailto:heedleblambeedle at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:35 AM To: Rocky Smolin Subject: Document Totals to $789 with the ram I want, but if I can get DDR5 10600 then I'd rather go for that. If so, the total will likely be $809-$819 Case: CM HAF 912 ($60) Motherboard: GA-Z86MA-D2H-B3 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3855#ov) ($99) Processor: Core i7 Gen II, quad core (LGA1155) ($300) Graphics card: GTX 560 Ti - 500W ($230) Power supply: 600W (missing model) ($50) 8GB RAM: http://www.frys.com/product/6522023 (hopefully) ($50) Total: $789 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com