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			<title>Just starting out</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hello, and welcome to my first thread about my first time taking apart a *really* old computer. Enjoy.

So, recently I asked my mum to bring home a desktop from her workplace. My guess is that it's 10+ years old (4 years younger than myself). I tried to take it apart and found a lot less cables and cords than I thought I would. Took me 2 hours and it's sitting on the floor in my room with both ...er... 'wall' thingies (those ones on the side? what do you call them?) off.

Things I noticed that were already inside:

1 x floppy drive
2 x disk drives
2 x fans (but no video/graphics card?)
1 x speaker
1 x mobo
1 x RAM-card-thing (unspecified how much)
1 x brown thing connected to mobo (video/graphics card maybe?)
1 x unbranded processor (unless a tick with N268 is a brand)
8 x slots for different cards
1 x tonne of dust

Things that weren't inside:

1 x scanner (unsure if it works)
1 x Microsoft optical mouse ( :D )
1 x 56k router (I laughed too)
1 x card with a flat but thick grey-white cord coming out
2 x dusty speakers
1 x Canon printer
30 x random cables
1 x Microsoft keyboard
1 x (extra?) disk drive

^all for free^

I felt like you all needed to read this.

But still unsure whether I should bother upgrading (NVIDIA 9600 GT = $110). Any thoughts?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:03:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Just starting out</title>
			<link>http://apcmag.com/forum.htm?g=posts&amp;m=8559#8559</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On a computer that old? definitely upgrading [i][/i] to [i][/i] a 9600 GT.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:35:32 GMT</pubDate>
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