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N440BX as a desktop computer?
I work with a high school band program that just had 3 of the following
systems donated to us... n440bx Columbus II Chassis PIII 600mHz 9GB SCSI hard drive 40x CDRom 1GB RAM 1.44 floppy drive keyboard mouse Right now, we have 2 offices that each have pIII 450mHz desktops. My thought is to use the donated computers as new desktops in the offices. I would probably install Windows XP and use the monitors from the current systems. Since we only need 2, I would take the processor out of one of the donated computers, and put it in one of the others, making it a dual PIII. Not knowing much about servers at all, can anyone tell me if there are any problems with doing this? Thanks for you time, Tom Traini |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:39:33 -0400, "Thomas Traini"
wrote: I work with a high school band program that just had 3 of the following systems donated to us... n440bx Columbus II Chassis PIII 600mHz 9GB SCSI hard drive 40x CDRom 1GB RAM 1.44 floppy drive keyboard mouse Right now, we have 2 offices that each have pIII 450mHz desktops. My thought is to use the donated computers as new desktops in the offices. I would probably install Windows XP and use the monitors from the current systems. Since we only need 2, I would take the processor out of one of the donated computers, and put it in one of the others, making it a dual PIII. Not knowing much about servers at all, can anyone tell me if there are any problems with doing this? Thanks for you time, Tom Traini 1. Run the XP compatibility wizard to check for hardware issues. 2. Remember, only XP Pro will see the second processor. XP Home is strictly single processor. For an office machine, dual processor is probably a luxury. JT |
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"InsomniaKev" wrote in message
... nice donated computers so is the question that u want a dual cpu setup with a 450 and a 600? Actually, the question is whether or not those server boards will work well for a desktop system. I don't know if there's anything "server-specific" on the n440bx that would make normal office applications unstable or inoperable. |
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