CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Every computer shop in the world has a stack of unused s478 Pentium 4 and a bunch of homeless socket A processors. We all have zillion of used 256MB DDR sticks too that we cannot use because no one ever buys 256MB DDR anymore. The reason why we have this is the motherboards from 5 to 9 years ago did not last, while other components did. Most of the 8 years old RAM, CPU and passively-cooled graphic cards I see are still good. But motherboards have failed, often because of blown capacitors.
Why isn't there any company making a 30-35$ motherboard for socket-A or socket 478? At that price, they would sell lots of them. It would cost me 35$ to build a system I could still sell for one hundred bucks. Many others too. All the other components are free. I have of pile of 40GB IDE hard drives, I pile of old AGP graphic cards, a pile of smallish DDR RAM sticks, a pile of CPU, too many empty used beige cases with Windows COA on them. And we are all like this. All the small computer shops I know are like this. I've never been to Red Hill but I know Tony is like this too.
Half of the computers I sell are used lease-return computers that people buy just to surf the Web and listen to music. All they need is a computer with a 2GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, a CD or DVD reader, four USB ports, 2D graphics and Windows XP.
Why no one makes that? There's a huge market out there just waiting for it to happen. If it doesn't, then it's a pile of toxic materials heading to the garbage deposit although it is still in working order.
Why isn't there any company making a 30-35$ motherboard for socket-A or socket 478? At that price, they would sell lots of them. It would cost me 35$ to build a system I could still sell for one hundred bucks. Many others too. All the other components are free. I have of pile of 40GB IDE hard drives, I pile of old AGP graphic cards, a pile of smallish DDR RAM sticks, a pile of CPU, too many empty used beige cases with Windows COA on them. And we are all like this. All the small computer shops I know are like this. I've never been to Red Hill but I know Tony is like this too.
Half of the computers I sell are used lease-return computers that people buy just to surf the Web and listen to music. All they need is a computer with a 2GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, a CD or DVD reader, four USB ports, 2D graphics and Windows XP.
Why no one makes that? There's a huge market out there just waiting for it to happen. If it doesn't, then it's a pile of toxic materials heading to the garbage deposit although it is still in working order.