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tutorial_items [2019/06/04 12:22] – [2019: Specs for a desktop/tower computer] jcnashtutorial_items [2019/06/04 12:29] – [2019: Specs for a new desktop/tower computer] jcnash
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-As a concrete example for discussion, see +As a concrete example for discussion, see [[2019NewTowerComputer|2019: New Tower Computer]]
  
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-2019-6-4: My (John Nash) current primary "working" machine, called J6, is a Sept 2011 tower, 
-which has served me well and is still a useful and well-balanced computer for  
-my needs. These are: 
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-  * a lot of management of files, since I have a goodly collection of computer archives, having been involved with building and using computers since 1961, and I have managed to preserve many of the files, as well as materials from my academic career, my creative writing, folk dance, and personal and family history material.  
-  * some computation (i.e., scientific computing), as well as specialized text processing, which can be intensive but is NOT gaming; I also do some scripting as well as programming for math/stat. 
-  * much communication activity (web, email, video chat, ftp/ssh) 
-  * some investigation of other distros (even --horrors-- non-Linux) using VMs under VirtualBox 
-  * some photo, audio and video editing, but mainly of the snip-and-glue variety 
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-I like a fairly big screen. At one time J6 had two monitors, a 24" HDMI and a 20" VGA, but I've found just the 24" is fine. Smaller screens (as on my laptops) are not as helpful for writing and programming. I use headphones for audio -- no fancy speakers. 
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-J6 has the following very edited setup:  
-  * Motherboard  GA-890GPA-UD3H 
-  * AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor 
-  * 16GiB System Memory (4*4Gib DIMM 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)) 
-  * display     RS880 [Radeon HD 4290] 
-  * multimedia  RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] 
-  * RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
-  * 2 * 1TB WDC WD1002FAEX-0 in RAID (mirrored) -- used as data storage 
-  * 500GB ST3500630AS used for OS and home directory 
-  * 250GB ST3250820A used for holding VM images and similar material 
-  * BD-RE  WH16NS40 optical drive (CD, DVD, BlueRay) 
  
  
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