Hi there, I just recovered this message - got burried in my spam folder. Can I infer from the Nvidia comments that there are many problems with them ? Or are they just tricky but do work? If the latter then that might be a topic that could help users. Anyway I just wanted to acknowledge that I received your message Russell albeit a bit late... Have fun in NZ, Mike
On 20/12/14 20:25, Russell Coker wrote: > > Today at the beginners meeting I was asked about donations to the Hardware > Library. I think it's worth discussing the matter here. > > P4 systems and most parts from that era generally aren't useful, systems based > around the AMD64 architecture are just too common. AGP video cards aren't > useful because they only fit older systems and people who still have such > systems in use are usually using them as routers or something. PCI Ethernet > cards have some use, 2 port Ethernet cards are useful and 4 port Ethernet > cards are VERY useful. > > RAM from systems of most ages is often useful, and when it isn't useful it's > small and light enough that I'm happy to take donations and sort them out > later. > > SATA disks are always useful, even the small ones. Large IDE disks are > useful, for IDE 300G is large. > > All PCIe cards are useful except for NVidia video cards. As an aside if > anyone wants an NVidia PCIe card then I'll bring some along. I usually don't > carry them around due to driver issues. > > I will bring the Hardware Library to the BBQ. I know that you are the type of > people who want that. ;) >
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