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To: nicewatch who wrote (797)	6/6/2019 11:49:09 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Recommended By SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1316

Asked a young guy at Racetrack I talk with if he had a computer and he said no. Anyway, I can put something together for him mostly out of spare parts. He's a good kid and this is something that will make me feel good. I told him I would build him a computer. Josh * * *

To: nicewatch who wrote (797)	9/26/2020 11:18:43 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1316

I went a totally different route for my new system. Instead of building from the ground up, I bought a refurbed Xeon workstation with 128GB of ECC DDR-4 already installed. That was $707 after tax. Then I bought an $80 14-core Xeon on Ebay, which I researched would work in this system. I put an old graphics card and SSD in after purchase. I am very happy with the results. The 14(28 cores) are very helpful for my GNS3 and EVE NG stuff. But the many cores are also good for web browsing, which let's face it, is probably the biggest time use for any system. Some sites that used to bring my Core-i7 to a temporary standstill, are now no problem. Web browsers are among the most advanced applications ever written and make very good use of all cores on a system. When I start a browser with many tabs set as start pages, I see ALL 28 virtual cores in use.

To: nicewatch who wrote (797)	1/9/2021 9:41:02 PM
From: goldworldnet	3 Recommendations Recommended By GPL nicewatch Stan Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1316

Ryzen 9 3900XT computer build assembled and running. Parts List Case -- Antec Gaming Series One Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case CPU -- AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-core, 24-Threads Unlocked Desktop Processor Without Cooler Mainboard -- GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 GPU -- Colorful GTX1060 Mini OC 6G New Gaming Graphics Card RAM -- 64GB(4x16) Vaseky Knight Desktop Ram Memory DDR4 16GB 2666MHz Desktop RAM SSD -- Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD PSU -- Cooler Master MWE Bronze 650 Modular 80+ Bronze 650W PSU Cooler -- Cooler Master RR-212X-20PM-A1 Hyper 212X CPU Cooler with Dual Fan (2) x 120 mm DVD-RW -- LG Electronics Internal Super Multi Drive Optical Drives GH24NSC0B Misc -- EverCool Dual 5.25 in. Drive Bay to Triple 3.5 in. HDD Cooling Box Case Fans -- (Value 4-Pack) Cooler Master Sleeve Bearing 120mm Silent Fan This should be a great computer as long as I don't have any trouble with the motherboard. * * *