My Shiny New Computer Box
UPDATE: Fixed missing quotation mark that ate part of the post.
I just realized that I had not yet mentioned the new computer I built just after graduation.
Isn’t it pretty? I think so. It’s also very, very fast, at least as compared to my laptop. <geekmode>It runs on a AMD Athlon 64 3500+, using a FoxConn NF4SK8AA-8KRS motherboard. It has 2.5 gigs of RAM and single 256MB XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX video card. Both the board and the card are SLI capable, meaning that in a few months, if I feel the itch to upgrade, I can pick up an identical video card (which will hopefully be cheaper by then) and plug it in, instantly (almost) doubling my video speed. All this wholesome goodness, plus DVD burner, floppy drive, and 250 gig hard drive are stuffed into the Antec Sonata II case, a beautiful, shiny black case that attracts fingerprints faster than a private investigator with a bottle of talcum powder.</geekmode>
It’s a very nice computer, paid for (mostly) by graduation presents and careful selection of items with rebates and sales. I just received the last piece today: My new flat panel monitor which I found at the astonishingly low price of $99 after rebates. It’s not a bad monitor either; no dead pixels, and the colors look good to my untrained eye. So, this is what my “workstation” looks like now:
I love it.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Looks great. I thought that looked like an Antec case
I’m pulling some funds together this summer to build a new system, but still fighting off the urge just to do some upgrades on my current speed demon. I’d need to upgrade MB, Processor, RAM, and Video at least, so it’s probably smarter just to build a whole new system.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Yeah… at that point you just need a motherboard, case, and hard drive and you’ve got yourself a new computer. You can always use the old computer as a file server or something.
June 4th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
But I’ve already got a file server (an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 MB Ram running Fedora Core 4 with several large drives for “data storage”); one more’s not going to do me any good
Maybe an Apache2/MySQL server for testing…
June 4th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Ooh, ooh! Plug in a video capture card and make a Tivo-like DVR out of it. Just replace Windows with the MythTV linux distro. (See http://www.byopvr.com/ for more.)