raymac46 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I have finally decided to retire my 7 year old Dell Optiplex 620 box, and I got a nice deal from a local small computer shop on an Acer Veriton business PC. It has an Intel i5 quad core, 1 TB drive, DVD--RAM, Windows 7 Pro and Intel graphics. A sturdy looking mini tower, not fancy but it'll do the job. We are not gamers here so the Intel integrated graphics wil be fine. I can always put in a PCI-e graphics card later if I want to. It has a DVI output so I hooked it up to my Acer 22 inch monitor and it looks great. Very quiet and powerful. The Optiplex will eventually become a Linux only system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Nice. Don't be so fast to dump that Win 7. It's a very nice MS OS this time around, in my not-an-MS-fan opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 dual boot the linux and W7, especially if the W7 was an OEM from Dell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 No the Optiplex has XP Pro. Not enough resources for Vista/Win 7. For now I'll keep the XP/Linux dual boot that is currently on it and mothball it. It could be used in a pinch. One of my concerns was that support for XP will go away in a couple of years and by then we'd be on to Windows 8. I'd prefer to go long term with Windows 7, hence the switch now rather than in a year or so. Certainly it is a lot easier to migrate to a new machine than before. All my data was backed up on an external drive, so I just copied it back to the new HDD. You can back up profiles to Thunderbird and Firefox so I did that and restored everything into the new installations. I needed a new copy of my photo management program and my electronic checkbook but that was it. That and dumping some bloatware and I was good to go. Everything passed inspection when my wife ran things today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Well, after working with older hardware it is nice to occasionally get something newer - a real luxury I'd say. The Acer obviously loads and runs things faster but the main advantage is - it's quiet. The Optiplex 620 I have features a Pentium D 840 - one of Intel's first attempts to make a dual core processor. It's a big chip with a pretty high clock speed and it generates lots of heat (TDP 130 watts.) So even a simple Youtube video or virus scan will soon get the cooling fans spooling up to the point where the box sounds like a 737 taking off. The i5 has twice as many cores, 7X the power and uses about 40% less electricity. Not to mention the quiet cooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Yep, the core chips are quite nice. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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