I remember something about this. A person could lose a $100<br>
motherboard because of a 25-cent capacitor.<br>
<br>
VC Tech Source is starting to get in Pentium 4 machines.<br>
But the pricing system ends up making a 1.8 GHz machine<br>
with a pentium 4 in it $171 dollars, which is way too much <br>
for a junker. And a pentium 4 is a dog in my opinion. The<br>
high clock rates suggest a crummy instruction set, and the<br>
chips are real power hogs.<br>
<br>
At those prices, better to buy a new low end Athlon based machine.<br>
<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
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<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 5/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raymond McLaughlin</b> <<a href="mailto:driveray@ameritech.net">driveray@ameritech.net</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ron Lauzon wrote:<br>> Bob Kline wrote:<br>>> I made a stop at VC Tech Source today. The stock seemed to be rather<br>>> depleted, ...<br><br>> Keep in mind that they are scrappers. If companies aren't getting rid
<br>> of their hardware, they have little to sell. ...<br><br>> Well, we ARE in the Dutch area of the state. 8-)<br>><br><br>I would suggest that we may also be seeing a "lost generation" in the scrap<br>
computer cycle. The last slot 1's (late PIIs, early PIIIs) are running out, and<br>many of the next gen socket 370/socket 462 era (later PIII's and comparable<br>Athlons) were from the *era of bad capacitors* <<a href="http://www.badcaps.net/">
http://www.badcaps.net/</a>>.<br><br>I'm painfully aware of this because I have several good CPUs, with approporiate<br>RAM, etc., and no mobo to run them in. I'm tempted to order replacement mobos,<br>but I'm affraid anything of that class would be leftovers with caps that will
<br>fail in 2-3 years. :-(<br><br>Any way's that's my speculation, based on my (limited) observation.<br><br>Raymond McLaughlin<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">
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