Re: Putting together a computer from old components
Spiros Bousbouras <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware,uk.comp.homebuilt |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:56:11 -0000 (UTC) Spiros Bousbouras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:34:56 -0500 > Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a specific objective this computer has to meet ? > > Is it running the heating system, recording security video, > > stuck in the loft ? > > General desktop usage : writing text , computer programming (nothing too > long) , watching videos and DVDs , listening to audio CDs , internet browsing > (mainly with a text browser.I'm not worried about slowness with a graphical > browser so lets not get stuck on that) , running chess engines (I don't need > maximum performance). See also <[email protected]> in this > thread. I describe my current usage also in <[email protected]> . > I also have an external hard disk which I connect through a USB port. The disk > mostly has videos in 360p or 720p resolution and I want the transfer rate to > be good enough that I can watch them at normal playback speed (using mplayer) . > > I also want to be able to connect a DVD reader/writer ; no need for blu-ray.