So the laser cutter computer apparently celebrated its eleventh(?)
birthday recently, and tends to be a slow and occasionally crashy piece
of junk. If anyone wants, I have an old gaming computer mobo, processor
and RAM I would happily donate, which should be a significant upgrade
(Phenom II x965 processor, 8 gigs of ram IIRC). If people are
interested I would be glad to figure out how to rebuild the laser cutter
compy around it.
There's two potential problems: First, I don't think it will fit into
the current laser cutter computer's case. We'd have to acquire a larger
one somewhere (at least ATX sized, IIRC). Second, it's a bit of a power
hog, so we might need a new power supply (400W should be plenty). New,
that's probably $130 of parts; used, maybe $50 or less, depending on
what I can dig up at Goodwill. Are people interested?
Simon
