[TriLUG] rfc on motherboard for anti-establishment pc

[Jim Ray]

me thinks james brigman has saved the day with a donated motherboard 
following his upgrade.

as for the 911, well, i am partial to the 930:
http://www.neuse.net/porsche


matusiak wrote:

> plenty of low cost (and even some free) hardware in here, if you need  
> to replace a damaged machine.
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>    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/free.html
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>    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/
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> or you could just go for the 911 carrera and not worry about linux  
> anymore.
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>    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/carrera996/
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> good luck!
> d.m.
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>> recently, i dropped my anti-establishment pc (non-intel and
>> non-microsoft system) en route to the open source lab at exploris.  it
>> hit the sidewalk rather hard and fried the motherboard or  processor.  i
>> really need to buy a new pc since it is a few years old yet spent way
>> too much money prior to dec 31 to reduce tax liability and am low on
>> $$$.  repair is inevitable.
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>> so, my request for comment is as follows:
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>> does anyone have a recommendation on a replacement motherboard/ 
>> processor
>> that takes the old 512 MB SDRAM and IDE hard drive?  currently, the
>> motherboard is MSI and processor is AMD Athlon.  am i better off
>> chunking the old one and chocking it up to experience?
>>
>> better yet, if someone has a beater machine they want to donate to
>> exploris and take a tax write off, i can donate my parts to beef it  up.
>> then, we can leave our ubuntu machine in the server room online at 45
>> Mbps for the open source lab to use.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> jim
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