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This was actually my 'Small' submission for the +Chrysta Rae scavenger hunt, but I thought it fit nicely with this week's theme for #macromonday … a pair of capacitors on an Asus desktop motherboard.
For #macromonday subtheme of "paired" with thanks to +Sandra Parlow & +Jeff Moreau
#macrophotography
It’s all these little things that keep Photoshop running…
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A great pair, indeed!! Were you assembling this desktop, yourself? 🙂
nice! that pink just pops right out!
Thank you +Jeff Moreau & +Sandra Parlow!
Sort of, Jeff… actually, this is one of the older boards (Asus P5B) that I removed to replace with a newer board. One way we save money on the 80+ computers in the student lab that I'm responsible for, is that we replace the 'innards' for about 1/4 of the machines each year. We can re-use cases, power supplies, keyboards, mice, monitors, hard drives (though we recently upgraded them all to small SSD drives for a much better boot-up experience), and can get a great-performing 'new' machine for just over $400 with new motherboard, i5 processor, and 4-8 GB RAM.
Awesome! :-D. It is incredible what kind of speed improvement you can get on an old machine when you boot off a SSD.
Yes, +Jeff Moreau, I think that an SSD drive is the single most important speed upgrade you can do… particularly on a desktop where you can get away with having your SSD for Operating System and programs and still have tons of storage for data on a secondary spinning drive.
+Dave Bell a few months ago I replaced the 250GB hard drive in my Dell Latitude Core 2 duo laptop with a Samsung 840 pro series 256GB SSD. Windows 7 Pro boots to a fully useable desktop in about 30 seconds! I couldn't believe how much performance improved.
It is quite amazing, isn't it, +John Balboni!