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    Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
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    Image of Torley Torley
    12/12/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    Oh, and if you're looking to get more miles outta your Mac, [macsales.com] has great prices on some things like RAM (average prices on other things which aren't Mac-specific, like USB hard drives).
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    I highly recommend [slickdeals.net] for bargain-hunting. As a newbie, start at the front page, but as you gain experience and become more familiar, dig into the forums - they're chock-full of great "deal culture" context.


    You can find a GeForce 9800GT for as little as US$100 at present, and quality 1920x1200 24" monitors have come down to ~US$200. Where'd I learn this? SlickDeals, of course. :)

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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    I got an old one from a friend with a nice processor and and upgraded all the major components, video card, ram, added USB hubs, an extra monitor from work, wire-less keyboard and mouse and a 5.1ss, almost a brand new computer for less then $400. I am not into gaming or anything, but it fits my needs.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    I just go and put neon in my case, and then get one of those giant exhaust systems built by Folgers. Makes my PC go faster.
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    Image of DontFeedTheTrolls DontFeedTheTrolls
    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    If that PC housed an XP setup, don't expect the food to be too great either...
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/11/08

    @.king: It depends on which service pack they were running, and if they properly brined their chicken ahead of time.
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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    I always use www.thechipmerchant.com and have never had an issue, whether the memory be for Macs or PCs
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    If you're going to buy old RAM (DDR or regular SDRAM) and HD, you might as well build a whole new PC cuz they're expensive (at least compared to current DDR2)
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    Image of Polybius Polybius
    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    Think you mean 9800GT's and 4850's not 4870's...
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    Image of John Mahoney John Mahoney
    12/11/08

    @Polybius: Mmmhmm.
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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    Possibly dumb question, can XP utilize a flash drive for virtual mem, and if so, will it speed it up any?
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/11/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Vista can. [en.wikipedia.org]


    I'm pretty sure XP can too, but I don't think it's built in.

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    12/11/08

    @Rabid Penguin: I don't like Vista. I do like Mojave though, but I haven't seen a release date on it.


    But yeah, I am only running XP now, so if it's a negligible performance boost, I won't bother.

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    12/11/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: I'm just using the Majave beta. I'm really loving it. Even the beta works better than Vista.


    For XP you'd need [www.eboostr.com] I'm not sure what kind of performance increase you'd see with it though.

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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    Don't just get a bigger display. Get TWO bigger displays. You'll thank me later.
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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    That image ftw - ghetto bbq = only thing PCs are good for. Oops, did I just say that?
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    12/11/08

    @Mona: Perhaps, but what they didn't show was them starting the fire with Apple power supplies...
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    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    I wish I had seen the BBQ mod two weeks ago.


    My old Dell got gutted and left for the porter to pick up. 8 years of service from a pre-XP Dell Dimension is more than enough.

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    Image of j4sk868 j4sk868
    12/11/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
    Dont try that BBQ mod with a Mac Pro. It will kill you and your neighbors.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/11/08

    @j4sk868: I think the problem with modding a Mac Pro into a BBQ is you'd only be able to use a limited number of sauces. Half the food you cooked would be underdone and need to be put back on the grill.


    A PC would have a large number of sauces and styles, ranging from vinegar-based Eastern Carolina to molasses-based Kansas City-style, but the ribs would come out inconsistent depending on the cooking ability of the user. You'd also have to worry about food poisoning.


    A Linux box would only use rubs, although the users would swear on a stack of O'Reilly books that rubs are better than sauces anyway.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/11/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: So in order to get the best barbecue you'd have to use a Mac that was running bootcamp with Vista that was running a virtual machine with Linux?
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    12/11/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Actually, the biggest hazard is the fact that aluminum releases toxic gases when burned and will kill you. Especially don't try this on a magnesium powerbook.
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    12/11/08

    @Rabid Penguin: That's one method, but by that time you'd need to gut an old drive enclosure to use as a smoker attachment and the grill would be overcrowded with chicken, beef and pork ribs, and corn roasting in the husk.


    At that point, the coals might not disperse the heat right. Plus, when you stop and think about it, you can use rubs on a PC grill or a Mac Pro grill. It's not like there aren't versions of GIMP and OpenOffice for OSX and Windows.


    So you really wouldn't need to Linux smoker. Especially if, like most people, you're only making chicken and ribs.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/11/08

    @Lite: What about aluminum cookware, and aluminum foil, and aluminum charcoal grills?
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    12/11/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Charcoal grills are not aluminum, they're steel. And cookware isn't typically set on fire, however it is considered suspect in causing some neurological diseases.


    Go investigate the armor on the M2 Bradley tank.

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    12/11/08

    @Lite: [www.pkgrills.com] <--- Aluminum Grill.


    Aluminum pans are put over high heat, and aluminum foil is stuck in your oven or on your grill.


    Is there something different about the aluminum? Is the heat not hot enough?

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    Image of cpthook cpthook
    12/11/08

    @Rabid Penguin: No, the fact is they have no idea if it's bad for you or not (probably not good, obviously). It came about because they found elevated levels of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. They have no idea if the aluminum is causally related or not, but they freaked out mothers everywhere who thought that their BBQ was going to kill their baby.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/11/08

    @cpthook: Thus why I said suspect rather than cause. No real correlation defined yet.
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    12/11/08

    @Lite: you got the picture. it cant run an OS if its filled with red hot charcoal.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/11/08

    @j4sk868: That's charcoal? I thought that was just the heat from a G5 Mac
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/11/08

    @Lite: I suppose I need to stop gnawing on the Macbooks when I go to the Apple store.
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