Benchmark idea presented at the bottom between stars (* *)
Lots of counterfeit capacitors out there. Some [mostly] Chinese companies
stole the formula for the electrolyte and started making their own
capacitors; of course they did it wrong (process, etc) and produced these
capacitors that
Hi Greg!
Good point! I think this whole 'special computer' thing is a bit overblown. I
have a quad Dell that works flawlessly with the Flex running 192 kHz in normal
mode with no freeze ups, max latency 610 ms and CPU usage between 5-12%. Flex
provides recommendations for the computer you
Thanks Don, 1st I've heard of it. Will keep an eye out for that problem.
Another good reason to try Neal's pre-configured approach
Brian
Don wrote:
Be careful with the 8400 as this was one of a number of PCs from Dell
that experienced the capacitor failure - where the top of the cap
Bad caps caused problems across a range of products.
http://www.badcaps.net/
Mel, k0pfx
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From: Brian C k...@hotmail.com
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Special Computer
Thanks Don, 1st I've heard
: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Special Computer
Thanks Don, 1st I've heard of it. Will keep an eye out for that
problem.
Another good reason to try Neal's pre-configured approach
Brian
Don wrote:
Be careful with the 8400 as this was one of a number of PCs
Be careful with the 8400 as this was one of a number of PCs from Dell that
experienced the capacitor failure - where the top of the cap pushed up and was
no longer flat. apparently they were using a bad batch of caps on their
motherboards. I had two of the 8400s and I just recently trashed
I think it's wonderful that Neal is offering a turnkey computer solution for
people who don't want to tweak their systems. I use a Dell Dimension 8400,
circa 2005. It's 4 years old, but it works great for the SDR1000 and always
has. For the 3K and 5K you'd need to add a firewire card and 2G of
You could be scaring away would be Flex purchasers with all this talk about
needing a specialized or custom designed computer to run a Flex. I feel Flex
would do well to get with Dell and spec out a machine that has been tested by
Flex and works. I am sure Neal can put together an
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM, AB2CDab...@bellsouth.net wrote:
You could be scaring away would be Flex purchasers with all this talk about
needing a specialized or custom designed computer to run a Flex. I feel
Flex would do well to get with Dell and spec out a machine that has been
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From: AB2CD ab...@bellsouth.net
To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:40 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Special computer
You could be scaring away would be Flex purchasers with all this talk
about needing a specialized or custom designed computer
AB2CD wrote:
You could be scaring away would be Flex purchasers with all this talk about needing a specialized or custom designed computer to run a Flex. I feel Flex would do well to get with Dell and spec out a machine that has been tested by Flex and works. I am sure Neal can put together
After
much head-scratching, somebody dares to open up the case and finds
that
some component is different from the one in mine (the manufacturer
found a similar chip that was 5 cents cheaper, and most people will
never know the difference).
Absolutely correct.
Or, maybe the OEM just
Alan,
You wrote, ...two months later people are buying that same model but
Two months is probably way too long a timeframe. The company I retired from
tried to lock onto a specific model of PC for the production floor. For a
while we were buying Compaq. Often, no two PC's in the same
I will relate a very frustrating but true story that makes me not go
the route of Dell/Gateway/Emachines/whatever.
I do contract work for local companies that need total support for
their network and all the devices on it. I had a customer with a
Gateway computer who's dvd drive stopped working.
All,
IMO, there are 2 ways to achieve nearly guaranteed operation:
1. Buy a FLEX 5000C (you can always call FLEX about your problem).
2. Try before you buy (don't bother FLEX, but you definitely have a
better shot at reliable performance).
Picking numbers , a FLEX SDR and PWR SDR puts you
Jim,
You stated IBM Thinkcentere in neither specialized nor custom. It has a P4
processor running at 3Ghz. I am using 3 gig. Where did you purchase
it? I assume it was not new? I thought IBM no longer sells PCs, they
sold that business to Lenovo.
I am waiting on Flex to redesign there software
Of Joe Word
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:09 PM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Special computer
Jim,
You stated IBM Thinkcentere in neither specialized nor custom. It has a P4
processor running at 3Ghz. I am using 3 gig. Where did you purchase it? I
assume it was not new
At 07:08 PM 8/10/2009, Joe Word wrote:
I thought IBM no longer sells PCs, they sold that business to Lenovo.
Not so, they sold the HOME COMPUTER biz to the Chinese which they run
under the name Lenovo.
They KEPT the server and high-end business computers. The
Intellistation is a
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