On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Pete Lancashire wrote:
I also need to upgrade. One thing I need is high performance USB.
Pete, The case I have has more USB3 ports than USB2 ports. I assume they're the original USB3. I also have a 7-port USB3 hub; plug in a flash drive and it connects to one of the front panel USB3 ports.
So if you're looking for a high performance system let's get together.
I'm thinking that if I am going to spend $$$ I might as well get something near today's top end. Newegg has an AMD RYZEN 7 2700 8-Core 3.2 GHz (4.1 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 65W YD2700BBAFBOX Desktop Processor on sale through tomorrow for $280 <https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113498&cm_re=AMD_Razen7_CPU-_-19-113-498-_-Product?>. The CPU comes with a cooler that has color control. Woopie-do. How one can see the cooler color in a closed case beats me. Seems that gamers like see-through cases with colors that make them look like 1950 jukeboxes. On that same page they show both Asus and MSI motherboards (with USB3.1), the former at $164 and the latter at $120. I've installed linux on both brands so I have no idea if the Asus is worth the extra cost for our needs. 16G RAM is another $185. I imagine the board will fit the case I have and the power supply is at least 65W. If we go this way we can get together to assemble them. I can probably sell my DDR3 RAM and the CPU for reasonable prices. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
