Kelly has allowed me to order a new computer for some serious game playing. So here are the specs:
?2 Maxtor 45GB 7200RPM in RAID 0
?2 256MB Corsair XMS (eXtreme Memory Speed Series) PC3200 Cas2 With Heat Spreader
?Asus A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 motherboard with 2 10/100 NICs, 6 USB 2.0, 2 Firewire, and great 6.1 channel audio
?AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz) Barton 333 FSB
?Blue Chieftec Server Case with acrylic window
?Geforce 4 Ti4600 video card
Here is a pic of the new case
Then 5 LED fans and a sweet copper heatsink that you have to mount a 80mm fan too.
So maybe now I can play Enter the Matrix, and UT2K3 with some decnet frame rates. The bad thing is because I spent quite a bit on the new PC, I can’t afford a new LCD monitor. So for going to LAN parties or anything I will have to lug the 21 inch CRT around (ooo my aching O ring).
I was having a little trouble at first getting Newegg.Com to accept my credit card because Kelly and I went and paid for my tuition, then trying to charge another 500 dollars to the card, the credit card company freaked out and froze my card. So I had to call the credit card company and have them put through the charge. So all is good now. And hopefully I will have my parts by Tuesday. The Geforce card I’m buying through a friend of Dallas’s who lives here in town. I’m gonna ask Dallas if he can unlock my processor for me so maybe I can squeeze 2800+ speeds out of my 2500+.
I currently have one 45 GB hard drive that I bought when I built my last computer, and it just so happens that Jim bought the exact same drive, so I’m gonna swap him one of my 40 GB drives for his 45 GB so I can run a RAID 0 setup, so I didn’t have to drop any cash on hard drives. I’m not sure the board that I have has on-board RAID or not, but I do have an ATA-100 RAID card that I can throw in there.
Not much else going on today, except that it is unbearably hot in here. Its probably 82 degrees in here right now, but its nice and cool outside, I wonder if its all the computer that I have on in here…… Ya think?
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