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superhero Aug 15, 2007

so, a brother in the hall gave me an "old" pc he didn't want. P4 2.4 ghz, 1 GB RAM, 100 GB Hard drive, Sony Vaio this is actually the fastest PC i've ever owned it seems to have a capture...

thefunkyfresh Aug 16, 2007

wow that's a pretty nice pc to get for free

superhero Aug 16, 2007

yeah i know right? he wanted me to fix some old PCs he bought, including a Sony Vaio laptop that he couldn't use b/c it wouldn't boot and he didn't have recovery CDs. (mind you, it's got a 2.8 GHz ...

iwz Aug 16, 2007

with USB you'll take a performance hit because it uses your CPU to do most of the work. PCI is the way to go if you can swing it, but USB is still fine.

superhero superheroOG 2004

ok PCI it is, I think I'll remove the 56K modem because WHY would i EVER use that? I put a bid on a Linksys PCI wifi card on ebay.

The PC has a built in TV Tuner that I think I'm going to try first, and see how well that works. I can get a trial of Beyond TV that would be perfect, and see how it goes.

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