Re: Dell Optiplex 990

UFO wrote:
> Wound up with one of these in working order with Win11 on it:
> 
> https://ibb.co/0ybHT8qV
> 
> I see one stick of RAM in there, I guess its an 8GB stick?
> HDD is the stock 500mB drive.
> 
> I noticed the CPU has copper pipes going to it for cooling....
> I am wondering if its worth the time to take the fan off and inspect the 
> thermal
> paste and replace it?
> 
> Apparently W11 is not well suited for this hardware, but I am no fan of 
> 10 either.
> 
> Considering a Linux flavor such as Mint or Cinnamon, or are there any 
> other interesting OS's
> that would kick butt on this one?
> 
> Not really looking for gaming on it, but the video chips seem to be half 
> way decent for that.
> It will be mostly a small business desktop use, making webpages, office 
> documents, does not have to be a screamer
> but I guess there is another memory slot if need be and this is probably 
> the fastest CPU that it can have?

I looked my spreadsheet of scrapped computers, as I had one of those. I 
put MX linux on it, last version 21 before it went to the recycling 
graveyard.