So, I got my off-lease Dell a couple of weeks ago. It's a 9th generation
i7 with 64 GB of RAM and support for NVMe down the road. (for the time
being, I'm running on a SATA SSD...)

I moved my existing SSD over to the new system, then realized it didn't
have Bluetooth or Wifi. I have ethernet in my office, so wifi isn't a
major concern, but Bluetooth was.

I put the hard drive back in my old computer and the Windows Activation
bit claimed my system had changed and needed to be re-activated. I
couldn't re-activate it using my serial, so I put it back in the new
system. Works there.

The great thing about Dells is the ability to source parts. I found a 2
1/2" drive sled, Intel wireless/bluetooth card and a SD card reader on
Amazon, installed the hard drive properly, installed the card reader and wireless/bluetooth, and ran the antenna cables between the outside of
the case and the plastic faceplate - I think that'll work better than surrounding the antennas with metal.

Now, what to do with 64GB of RAM...

Realistically, I should go back to my old desktop (i7, 4 cores, 4
threads, 16 GB RAM) and use this one for Proxmox. It's got 4 cores/8
threads and more RAM then I'll ever need for the near future.

But, transcoding movies so my Roku can stream them went from 28 minutes
to 4 (!) with the new box, and it's got both USB 3.0 on the front and
USB-C, so it's pretty nice.



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To: Kurt Weiske
Re: Postscript
By: Kurt Weiske to All on Sun Sep 24 2023 11:20 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

So, I got my off-lease Dell a couple of weeks ago. It's a 9th generation
i7 with 64 GB of RAM and support for NVMe down the road. (for the time being, I'm running on a SATA SSD...)

I moved my existing SSD over to the new system, then realized it didn't
have Bluetooth or Wifi. I have ethernet in my office, so wifi isn't a
major concern, but Bluetooth was.

I put the hard drive back in my old computer and the Windows Activation
bit claimed my system had changed and needed to be re-activated. I
couldn't re-activate it using my serial, so I put it back in the new
system. Works there.

The great thing about Dells is the ability to source parts. I found a 2
1/2" drive sled, Intel wireless/bluetooth card and a SD card reader on Amazon, installed the hard drive properly, installed the card reader and wireless/bluetooth, and ran the antenna cables between the outside of

you could have got a bluetooth usb dongle and a usb card reader too, instead of cracking it open.
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Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

you could have got a bluetooth usb dongle and a usb card reader too, instead of cracking it open.

Yeah, but systems nowadays are so easy to work on, and I didn't want a
bunch of crap hanging off of it.



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