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It's an old windows XP but I don't have the cash to get a good gaming rig at the moment, so I wanna update it so I can play wow, minecraft and tf2. I don't care it I have to play on like medium graphics capacity
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You don't give any info on the current configuration/specification of your XP machine so I cannot give advice on actual individual components you should buy. But read this: http://topwowlevelingguides.com/blog/play-world-of-warcraft-computer-specifications
It will give you the minimum and recommended specifications needed for playing World of Warcraft
You don't give any info on the current configuration/specification of your XP machine so I cannot give advice on actual individual components you should buy. But read this: http://topwowlevelingguides.com/blog/play-world-of-warcraft-computer-specifications
It will give you the minimum and recommended specifications needed for playing World of Warcraft
What was the benefit of the transistor replacing the vacuum tubes?
MistressAl
I need to make a brief slide for a power point. Enough info to start me off would be great.
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Size, for one. Those old vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers were huge. We in the ham radio community sometimes buy and restore them as part of our hobby - but even we refer to them as boat anchors.
Another consideration is stability. Even tubes made adhering to the highest quality standards tend to drift off frequency - when new, it's minimum, but as they age, it becomes a real problem.
Then there's heat: those vacuum tubes got hot - and a good radio or t.v. set that depended on them got real warm - and that would cause much more rapid degradation of surrounding components. One solution was to install cooling fans - not a terribly bad idea, as you'll see said fans in many modern desktop computers - but that added to the unwanted noise from the rig and increased the power demands of the device - in commercial applications in particular, that could be a significant expense, 'cause electricity ain't free.
The first electronic computer used hundreds and hundreds of vacuum tubes - and the damn things were down as often as they were working. And they were huge - filling large rooms - and produced immense amounts of waste heat, and demanded many watt-hours of electricity. And they could only do basic arithmetic - add, subtract, multiply and divide - though when running, could do it very fast. Your almost-antique palm pilot could do the same functions just as rapidly - and you know how much else it could do. And look at the latest droid and it's rivals - those damn things can do almost everything your desktop, notebook or netbook can do - and it's all because of transistors.
There ya go: hope it helps.
Size, for one. Those old vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers were huge. We in the ham radio community sometimes buy and restore them as part of our hobby - but even we refer to them as boat anchors.
Another consideration is stability. Even tubes made adhering to the highest quality standards tend to drift off frequency - when new, it's minimum, but as they age, it becomes a real problem.
Then there's heat: those vacuum tubes got hot - and a good radio or t.v. set that depended on them got real warm - and that would cause much more rapid degradation of surrounding components. One solution was to install cooling fans - not a terribly bad idea, as you'll see said fans in many modern desktop computers - but that added to the unwanted noise from the rig and increased the power demands of the device - in commercial applications in particular, that could be a significant expense, 'cause electricity ain't free.
The first electronic computer used hundreds and hundreds of vacuum tubes - and the damn things were down as often as they were working. And they were huge - filling large rooms - and produced immense amounts of waste heat, and demanded many watt-hours of electricity. And they could only do basic arithmetic - add, subtract, multiply and divide - though when running, could do it very fast. Your almost-antique palm pilot could do the same functions just as rapidly - and you know how much else it could do. And look at the latest droid and it's rivals - those damn things can do almost everything your desktop, notebook or netbook can do - and it's all because of transistors.
There ya go: hope it helps.
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