Slow But Steady
Recycles dryer sheets
Friends:
My current computer seems to be getting a bit sluggish. It's a 3-core AMD system I built 7 or 8 years back. I run 2 investment software packages at the same time (Schwab Street Smart Edge and Ameritrade's Think or Swim).
The Schwab software loses its data connection from time to time.
Other than that, it's mostly internet browsing , email, MS Office and the like. I confess I often have 20 or so browser tabs open.
Now I'm again facing the build vs buy question. I like the case I own, and somewhere along the line I picked up a nice 650 watt power supply. I think everything else would have to be new.
Now that I am retired and without a regular income stream, I wonder if buying might be more economical. The system I built was not the latest-greatest, and I wouldn't probably build the latest-greatest, either. I do need to run two monitors, one of which will be some kind of wide format.
Likewise, if buying, I'm open to lease returns and the like.
What's the verdict - build or buy?
My current computer seems to be getting a bit sluggish. It's a 3-core AMD system I built 7 or 8 years back. I run 2 investment software packages at the same time (Schwab Street Smart Edge and Ameritrade's Think or Swim).
The Schwab software loses its data connection from time to time.
Other than that, it's mostly internet browsing , email, MS Office and the like. I confess I often have 20 or so browser tabs open.
Now I'm again facing the build vs buy question. I like the case I own, and somewhere along the line I picked up a nice 650 watt power supply. I think everything else would have to be new.
Now that I am retired and without a regular income stream, I wonder if buying might be more economical. The system I built was not the latest-greatest, and I wouldn't probably build the latest-greatest, either. I do need to run two monitors, one of which will be some kind of wide format.
Likewise, if buying, I'm open to lease returns and the like.
What's the verdict - build or buy?