PC Peripherals Is a downloading rig necessary?

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Bluffmaster said:
But that system has 64mb default SD ram :P

And if i were djmykey i would get a cheap laptop. Seriously brother nothing replaces a good cheap laptop. The power consumption is very low , it doesn't require a UPS and its portable. IMO it would make a perfect download rig :)
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Agree with the laptop thing. I bought the EeePC back in Feb just to mess around with, no intention of turning it into anything:bleh: then, and now it has turned into a brilliant download rig, with the lowest possible power numbers. The MSI Wind though is a better buy now.:)
 
Aaah Wind also is around the corner. So shud I wait for Wind PC ??? There is a small MSI Fanbouy inside me :P
 
Laptop requires a UPS for downloading, as many people have modems that require power.

+1 for EEEPC. Supports XP so not knowing linux is no reason for not using it. Its linux is so simple that my grandmother could use it. Look at it as a cheap download rig taking 10 watts, and a laptop comes free with it.
 
+1 for the EEPC or MSI Wind..... I am also considering getting one as a download rig.... the power consumption is simply tempting.... & the issues like cooling, noise & more fans are not there....
 
Amd rigs are better at running in low power states cant say for your rig . Ati graphics cards have powerplay in them and newer mobos consume very lss power in idle state .
 
OK another thing I dint tell ya. I can stand the Eee PC ka display; its too small. I wanna hook up my 19" LCD monitor to it. And I browse heavy (I mean it), my current 1.8 GHz northwood hangs sometimes when I open 5-6 tabs. And ppl I want it like this or else I dun want it. So if Eee PC can't sustain then I dun want it. I'm still not ruling out the Acer PC. and boss a lappy is a lappy and a PC is a PC. Lappy = frequent hangs (I hate hangs) PC = Hangs but not so often.
 
Bluffmaster said:
Not if you have an inverter. Almost everyone today owns an inverter.
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Meaningless to bring in an inverter at this stage. Laptops don't require a UPS was said when comparing to desktops. If you run an inverter, neither desktop nor laptop need a UPS. Since almost everybody today owns an inverter, why do you say laptops don't need a UPS while desktops do need a UPS?
 
djmykey said:
OK another thing I dint tell ya. I can stand the Eee PC ka display; its too small. I wanna hook up my 19" LCD monitor to it. And I browse heavy (I mean it), my current 1.8 GHz northwood hangs sometimes when I open 5-6 tabs. And ppl I want it like this or else I dun want it. So if Eee PC can't sustain then I dun want it. I'm still not ruling out the Acer PC. and boss a lappy is a lappy and a PC is a PC. Lappy = frequent hangs (I hate hangs) PC = Hangs but not so often.
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Its your call to make whether to get an eeepc or not, but all your superstitions are baseless. It has 512 MB RAM which is good enough for linux, haven't run XP so cannot say. Anyway the issue is not to throw away your 1.8GHz Northwood, only that when only you are downloading uninteractively for a long time, you do it on something like a eeepc rather than a power consuming monster.

1. I have hooked up 17" monitor, and there were no performance issues. Not for long though, see point 3 below.
2. My eeepc has not given me a hang for the 2 months I've owned it.
3. Nowadays, I vnc to it from my main PC so I don't have to use its keyboard/trackpad/screen etc. If you install XP, you could remote desktop to it.
 
bingoUV said:
Anyway the issue is not to throw away your 1.8GHz Northwood, only that when only you are downloading uninteractively for a long time.
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So ur saying that the Eee PC should be kept only for downloading stuff. Even browsing should be done on my gaming rig.

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3. Nowadays, I vnc to it from my main PC so I don't have to use its keyboard/trackpad/screen etc. If you install XP, you could remote desktop to it.
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Do you VNC to Linux ??

What about connecting a 160 GB WD Passport to it all the time ?
 
Well, subject was "downloading rig", so I thought it is needed for long download sessions. I don't have a gaming PC and power consumption of my main PC is also only 180 W including monitor (measured through APC powerchute long ago). I use eeepc only as a server which is mostly on. It downloads, uploads, and does what I tell it from time to time. I can tell it to do stuff from my mobile phone through an email.

Yes, I vnc to linux.

Connecting hard disk is fine, just set it to go off when not used. I just use a pen drive. After downloading, the stuff goes to a hard disk connected to my main PC. Might get an SD card because pen drive protrudes from its body and if I move it around carelessly, the pen drive might collide with something. Other than that the body seems sturdy, you can get a bit rough with it. Even give it to kids to play ;)
 
>> What about connecting a 160 GB WD Passport to it all the time ?

What do you think will happen? :P

>>So ur saying that the Eee PC should be kept only for downloading stuff. Even browsing should be done on my gaming rig.

If you have better machine, then why wouldn't you browse on it.

(Assuming its turned on)
 
OK guys I also checked out Dell 200 Vostro Slim desktops.

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This is a cute little box for 19k. It comes with a 15" CRT which I can sell I guess. So if we deduct 4k of the monitor then it will come to 15k, which is any day worth. If I add the media card reader and DVD-RW it comes upto 19k. So this deal also is good I guess.
 
Have you made any enquiries about its power consumption? My gut feeling is 100W without monitor, assuming a somewhat inefficient Dell SMPS. Do you plan to underclock it?

If OS is installed on the 160GB hard disk, you cannot set it to power down when idle. Windows will take care that it spins up every few seconds. You might want to install the OS on a pen drive, or some other power efficient device.

Its positive point is that you can open 10 tabs in your browser and it will not flinch.

Slightly OT, but reading US customers' review I found that Dell uses a proprietary power connector so that you cannot replace the SMPS with any SMPS on the market. Only Dell SMPS fit, which are of course priced above other SMPS for similar features. Is the situation same in India? Not saying you should change the SMPS, just curious.
 
You could also consider MSI wind desktop--

Up close with MSI WIND desktop in Taipei :: TweakTown

As far as power consumption goes, it excels with flying colors. For starters it has gained Energy Star 4.0 compliance which not many computers can claim at this stage and in the demo MSI was showing, it was using just 30 watts of power with a 1.6GHz processor – we were told that the MSI WIND PC will use no more than 35 watts. It was compared side by side with a full sized desktop PC (we didn’t get the specs but we’ll assume it was a gaming PC) that was chewing up a total of 242 watts of power. MSI said during its presentation that if you switched over to a WIND PC from a regular desktop computer that you could save $3900 NTD (or $134 USD) per year on electricity bill in Taiwan.

Source-Tweaktown
 
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