Thats why I did retire my old P4 with win XP. It was starting to cost more money than iy was worth and even with Lunatics the cost of electricity wasnt worth the 500 RAC for it.

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Old James

I wish to state here and now that I always
pay for the Windoz software that I have.
Why the last thing I would ever think to
do would be to use free software from
the world's greatest computer company.
Ever!!!!

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Thats why I did retire my old P4 with win XP. It was starting to cost more money than iy was worth and even with Lunatics the cost of electricity wasnt worth the 500 RAC for it.

Was that CPU or GPU crunching. I run 2 XP boxes with a better PSU and a decent Graphics card. MS can get stuffed, I'll run XP as long as I WANT TO, not when they want me to.

Figure it out yourself I'd say when you were a big company but I guess your computers will do just fine:)

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Thats why I did retire my old P4 with win XP. It was starting to cost more money than iy was worth and even with Lunatics the cost of electricity wasnt worth the 500 RAC for it.

Was that CPU or GPU crunching. I run 2 XP boxes with a better PSU and a decent Graphics card. MS can get stuffed, I'll run XP as long as I WANT TO, not when they want me to.

It was just CPU. The case was so small I couldnt even get a GTS 250 in it. Plus the PSU was at the top in the smallest space they could cram it in. It weas an old gateway I bought in 2003. And I had allready sunk money in it. I had just built my second I7 3770. So I put it out by the road minus its one year old hard drive. It was gone in 30 minutes.

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Old James

We have a saying on this side of the pond. One mans junk is another mans treasure.

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Old James

I can't tell you how much old
RAM I have laying around my
computer room. (Den) I think
it was the cost that makes me
hold on to it.....

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... I've always left my old comps and computer junk by the front gate, it's always gone by the morning. Saves a trip to the dump! 2 weeks ago I left out two US Robotics 56K fax modems, complete with power adapters, cables, and original boxes. Some chap knocked on the door and said do you really not want them? I said I hadn't used them since my dial up days 15 years ago! He was well chuffed with them, gawd knows why???

Same thing happened to me when I chunk-ed those monitors out at the street...
Fellow knocked on the door and asked to take them. It as a nice gesture. I don't
know if he was "well chuffed," but one man's trash can be another's treasure...

Back to the OP's topic, OEM only works for original box, or pay $$$ for MS Retail
OS and w/ both spend lots of time downloading service packs and patches. I downloaded
and burned an ISO of Ubuntu and have used it on old and new boxes. No phone
calls to MS necessary...

I happen to live and exist on other men's trash, so to speak.
All of my GPUs are second hand gifts from another kind Seti user.
Well, all but a few.
He has granted me many of his cast-offs. A generation old for himself, but a brand new day for the kitties.

Chuffed? I might well imagine. I know how I feel when I get a package in the post with a neatly used GPU in it.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster