Sunday, July 31, 2005
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
New toy (finally)
So I finally bought a new computer.
here is the run-down..
Post screen.. notice: 2097152K of RAM!
Here's the case that they gave me.. turns out it's better than anything I could have got that didn't have lights or windows, and this was half the price (whatever!)
Here's the inside.. man those 120mm fans are huge.
Check out those 3 drives.
It's nice to have a computer that waits for me, and not the other way around. Plus my keyboard is in good shape, etc.
/*begin nerd content*/
When they say deluxe, they mean deluxe. This motherboard has 2 16x PCI-E slots, a couple 1x PCI-E slots, something like 10 usb 2.0 ports, 2 firewire ports, 8 channel audio, Coaxial SPDIF out , optical SPDIF out, 2 gigabit lan ports, 8 SATA ports, 4 of which are from the nforce 4 chipset, the other 4 from a Silicon Image RAID controller (supports raid 0, 1, 1+0, and 5 I believe). I know, I know, I could have ran a raid cluster (was thinking about doing a raid 5 setup), but then I would need another hard drive; Maybe not need, but want :P.
/*end nerd content*/
Fuck, I am pure nerded out.. I am pumped.
here is the run-down..
- S939 Athlon 64 , 3200+ (Venice)
- 2 x 1 GB ram sticks (2 gig total)
- Asus A8N-SLI deluxe motherboard
- 3 x Western Digital 200 GB 8MB cache SATA drives (600 GB TOTAL!!!! FUCK)
- Geforce 6600GT video card (128MB, PCI-E)
- your average NEC dvd burner (16x? fuck. who cares)
- Enermax 535 watt power supply
- 2x 120mm stealth fans
- 2x 80mm fans that came with case (lights galore)
- Some kind of jazzy case they gave me
- 19" Samsung SyncMaster 997DF.. CRT (message me to hear reasons and complaints about LCD's)
Post screen.. notice: 2097152K of RAM!
Here's the case that they gave me.. turns out it's better than anything I could have got that didn't have lights or windows, and this was half the price (whatever!)
Here's the inside.. man those 120mm fans are huge.
Check out those 3 drives.
It's nice to have a computer that waits for me, and not the other way around. Plus my keyboard is in good shape, etc.
/*begin nerd content*/
When they say deluxe, they mean deluxe. This motherboard has 2 16x PCI-E slots, a couple 1x PCI-E slots, something like 10 usb 2.0 ports, 2 firewire ports, 8 channel audio, Coaxial SPDIF out , optical SPDIF out, 2 gigabit lan ports, 8 SATA ports, 4 of which are from the nforce 4 chipset, the other 4 from a Silicon Image RAID controller (supports raid 0, 1, 1+0, and 5 I believe). I know, I know, I could have ran a raid cluster (was thinking about doing a raid 5 setup), but then I would need another hard drive; Maybe not need, but want :P.
/*end nerd content*/
Fuck, I am pure nerded out.. I am pumped.