[GRLUG] VC Tech Source

[Bob Kline]

I remember something about this.  A person could lose a $100
motherboard because of a 25-cent capacitor.

VC Tech Source is starting to get in Pentium 4 machines.
But the pricing system ends up making a 1.8 GHz machine
with a pentium 4 in it $171 dollars, which is way too much
for a junker.   And a pentium 4 is a dog in my opinion.  The
high clock rates suggest a crummy instruction set,  and the
chips are real power hogs.

At those prices,  better to buy a new low end Athlon based machine.


   -Bob



On 5/9/06, Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> Ron Lauzon wrote:
> > Bob Kline wrote:
> >> I made a stop at VC Tech Source today.  The stock seemed to be rather
> >> depleted,  ...
>
> > Keep in mind that they are scrappers.  If companies aren't getting rid
> > of their hardware, they have little to sell. ...
>
> > Well, we ARE in the Dutch area of the state.  8-)
> >
>
> I would suggest that we may also be seeing a "lost generation" in the
> scrap
> computer cycle. The last slot 1's (late PIIs, early PIIIs) are running
> out, and
> many of the next gen socket 370/socket 462 era (later PIII's  and
> comparable
> Athlons) were from the *era of bad capacitors* <http://www.badcaps.net/>.
>
> I'm painfully aware of this because I have several good CPUs, with
> approporiate
> RAM, etc., and no mobo to run them in. I'm tempted to order replacement
> mobos,
> but I'm affraid anything of that class would be leftovers with caps that
> will
> fail in 2-3 years. :-(
>
> Any way's that's my speculation, based on my (limited) observation.
>
> Raymond McLaughlin
>
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