One for the computer geeks among you
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manI attended a so-called "Green Troublemakers" meeting of NLS and NNLS members little while ago, as a result of which I ended up on a rota of providing Green Tips of the Week to both shuls' newsletters.
I thought I'd write mine on how it's not necessary to buy a new computer every few years: my own desktop, epicyclic, is about a dozen year old, but rejuvenated in 2004 when I got it with a new CPU and motherboard, and, since then, a new PSU, and DVD writer to replace the CD-ROM writer. Other ways I could soup it up would include adding more RAM and updating the graphics and sound cards... but I'm not sure one can continue this process indefinitely. Might there be issues, such as bus speed, which would limit the improvements one could get by upgrading the CPU and adding more RAM?
I've had a bit of a google, but couldn't readily find answers to this. Anyone here know?
I thought I'd write mine on how it's not necessary to buy a new computer every few years: my own desktop, epicyclic, is about a dozen year old, but rejuvenated in 2004 when I got it with a new CPU and motherboard, and, since then, a new PSU, and DVD writer to replace the CD-ROM writer. Other ways I could soup it up would include adding more RAM and updating the graphics and sound cards... but I'm not sure one can continue this process indefinitely. Might there be issues, such as bus speed, which would limit the improvements one could get by upgrading the CPU and adding more RAM?
I've had a bit of a google, but couldn't readily find answers to this. Anyone here know?
