Geektastic
Posted By Russ Emerson on March 23, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I picked up the new PC a couple of hours ago, and have so far managed to wrestle it to the base of the stairs. Since it’s boxed, sliding it up the stairs will be comparatively simple.
I had a super-quiet power supply installed, and the cooling fans are the larger type, which can run slower and quieter for the same effect. No more blender-like noises.
The hard part is going to be the rebuilding of my office area. I’ll have to tear things down, of course, before I can re-do everything. Along with the new PC, I’ll be replacing my UPS with two bigger/better ones I picked up for a song at Circuit City before they folded. I’ll be replacing the 19″ Dell CRT I use for work with a new 22″ LG flatscreen, said flatscreen also acquired from the late Circuit City for a song.
I’m drooling just over the specs on this new box. Intel i7 920 Quad Core 2.66GHz processor, 2 Seagate 500 GB hard drives, nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB video card, 6 GB of 1333 MHz memory, XP Pro (yes, I know XP can only address 4 GB of memory, but eventually there will be a worthwhile 64-bit OS, which Vista definitely isn’t) and a DVD burner and a second DVD drive. For the first time, I’ve skipped having a floppy drive. I haven’t used a floppy in I don’t know how long.
So, let’s recap: new PC, work laptop, two big flatscreen monitors, router, cable modem, UPSs, keyboards, mouses, speakers, printer… the wiring is going to be a nightmare. Maybe I should put a bit of thought into the cabling before I set things willy-nilly on the desk.
No, that would be the smart thing to do. No sense changing my ways at this late date.
Maybe when I get everything together and in place I’ll take a picture.
I’ll be offline until Thursday, I expect. I don’t know if I can handle the withdrawal, but I have plenty of DVDs to entertain myself with, if I feel the need to look at a screen for that long.
But nevertheless, I feel like Navin Johnson getting his hands on the new phone book… the new PC is here! The new PC is here! I’m somebody now!
Let’s just hope there isn’t a sniper looking for me.
I just built one of these for my co-founder. It was darn fast. He wanted Ubuntu on it, so I did that. My next machine will definitely be an i7, but I might move to Ubuntu and use a VM for windows on it. XP Pro has crappy paging and memory management.