On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:25:52 -0500, Bill
wrote:

I noticed that Best Buy advertised an Intel "7th Generation" i7-CPU's
today, 4.2/4.5 GHz, for about $335. Probably not as good a value as
the one you mention above. My gut feeling is that Intel is capable of
providing better support if it is needed,but this is probably a non issue.

To change the topic slightly, what's the word on those MP2 hard drives
(my Gigabyte mainboard could hold one)?

Other question: Who's more of a "hardware junkie", the millenials or
the people running "your father's computer"? ; )

Cheers,
Bill

The FX series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...icroprocessors

I'd caught a sale on a 125W 8-core Vishera but, looking them over,
liked a lower-wattage 95W version. They're 4-yr-old technology,
lagging Intel significantly;- there's also a cache issue and "paired
cores," not well received -- some so far to claim false advertising,
on AMD's part, for a faux 8-core that's essentially a quad.

Ratings and benchmarks, however, place the cost of the (8-core) AMD
Vishera well up and alongside Intel I-series chips to those Dollar
Cost Averaging for flipflops.

MP2 drives and new standards. Saw a few slotted $15 PCI-E conversion
boards for driving MP2, so it'll likely go back farther aways to older
boards than yours.

Hardware, rolling, building and running your own, is definitely niche.
Always has been. Back in the day, what they had to say about both the
soft and hardware, is that it's obfuscating. So Bill Gates came along
to fix it. Don't let 'em fool you, though: Computers annoy people --
maybe they just don't say it as much as before. Standards have become
smoother and focused -- and the WEB as remote applications from
handheld devices is much more a reality. One big social media,
evidently, from Trump on down.

Dunno, my experience has been here and some of the earliest
1200/2400baud BBS relay systems (FIDO/RIME/Bonnie Anthony/&etc --
transatlantic Britain to USA, mostly). Never owned a handheld device
too.