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Old 7th Sep 2017, 10:23 am   #25
cheerfulcharlie
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Default Re: New hard drive for Pentium IV

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Originally Posted by ben View Post
I like the idea of that bomb proof HP! I think I may go for this, from that same range. It has win10 but should be no big deal to 'downgrade'. I could do that as and when I get hold of a 1TB drive.
Good choice. I have bought several in the UK for around £40 each when they were being decommissioned from the corporate market and flogged on Ebay.They are built like tanks inside with sophisticated cooling etc and plenty of USBs.Most of them had a clean Win 7 install on(after disc wipe), which at the time you could upgrade free to Win 10 and doing so went without a hitch.
Some were AMD some were Intel it didn't seem to make any difference to the type of tasks we use a computer for.

It has it's own graphics of course,however you can easily add an up to date graphics card but will need the 'desktop' back plates and if you need both VGA and HDMI etc sockets you will need two slot spaces as VGA is usually a plug in option these days.

Last edited by cheerfulcharlie; 7th Sep 2017 at 10:41 am.
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