Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by brudgers on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:25PM
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As new PC technology evolves, Project Christine can evolve with it.
I read that and was taken back to the early 90's and Zeos PC's with CPU daughter cards that would protect my investment according to the glossy ads in Computer Shopper. Then there was the 487 socket for upgrading 486SX CPU's...by disabling the FPUless chip completely for the fully functional chip that should have been bought to begin with. Not that upgrades were ever done in significant numbers.
Of all the forms of premature optimization that occur in computing, non-standard upgradable hardware is among the most persistent.
Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by TrainedMonkey on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:29PM
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It is still alive and is pretty affordable now: http://thermaltakeusa.com/store/Product.aspx?C=1014&SC=1017&...
I will stick with my 900D though.
Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by jsmeaton on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:28PM
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I know very few people that constantly upgrade their PC builds. The ones I do, upgrade for the sake of upgrading, not because the hardware is no longer able to keep up. For example, a new minor version of a video card comes out, and they drop $1000 (AU prices.. sigh) on upgrading the card. They might do that 2 times per year.
Most of my friends that build new PCs will do so every 3-5 years but, like you said, very little is salvageable. Non-OS storage being the main reusable component.
Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by GhotiFish on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:18PM
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Well. I don't think sata is going anywhere at the very least. A chassis that supports expandable and swappable drives wouldn't go amiss.
Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by cambion on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:52PM
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Easily handled. SATA backplanes with modular drive slots are available and they fit into two or three or four 5.25" slots. Many enthusiast and server chassis already have the option for SATA backplanes as well.
About 10 years ago I thought I wanted something like this.
Over the years I realized that my meticulously researched, highly expandable PC builds were rarely being expanded or upgraded. By the time I really wanted, much less needed something new there was little if anything worth salvaging.
This creation looks like a great way to spend even more on building/upgrading something that will be relatively big, slow, power hungry / hot in 3 years all the same.
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