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The beast awakes!
May. 17th, 2004 09:58 pmOkay, so a failing hard drive, erratically behaving video card and just plain Stone-Age obsolescence have finally conspired to make me pull the trigger on a beast of a new computer. The Hattori Hanzo machine shall be created by Tech-E's, a local computer shop run by total freakin' geeks like myself who obsess over hardware.
Here are the specs on said beast computer:
Motherboard: Abit IC7-MAX3, socket 478, 875P Canterwood chipset, 800 FSB, onboard Gigabit ethernet, onboard six-channel audio, OTES onboard cooling technology
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 800 FSB, retail
Video card: ATI Radeon X800 Pro, AGP 8X, 475MHz clock, 256MB 900MHz DDR3 memory, 5.7 Gigapixels/s fill rate
Storage: Western Digital WD2000JD, 200 GB serial ATA drive, 7200 rpm, 8MB cache
Optical: Lite-On combo drive, supports 52x CD-read/32x CD-rewrite/52x CD-write/16x DVD-read, black
System memory: Samsung 3200 DDR 400 memory, dual 512MB modules for a total of 1 GB
Power supply: Thermaltake 480W Xaser
Case: Lian Li PC-61 mid-tower case, black aluminum, 4 case fans
Floppy drive: Sony 1.44 floppy drive, black
Operating system: Windows XP Home Service Pack 1
The X800 Pro video card is so new it isn't in most stores yet (including Tech-E's). Because I kind of need this computer as soon as I can get it, I ordered the card from Best Buy (managing to get it for actual retail price, too -- most retailers that actually have the card are charging horrendous markups). Should have that in a couple of days; meanwhile Tech-E's is putting the rest of the machine together with a base-level card. They'll complete the system when I bring the X800 Pro to 'em, at which point I shall be an EXTREMELY happy camper.
Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 in 32-bit color with 4xFSAA & 8xAniso filtering enabled, getting 70 FPS framerate, here I come!
Oh, and one more amusing thing. When one buys $1700 worth of computer equipment in one afternoon, one's credit union freaks out and has their Fraud Prevention department give one a phone call to ensure the charges are legit. :)
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Currently playing: J. S. Bach -- Great Organ Works (Biggs). E. Power Biggs was a master when he sat in front of an organ's keyboard, and he shows it on this collection of some of Bach's greatest compositions for the organ.
Here are the specs on said beast computer:
Motherboard: Abit IC7-MAX3, socket 478, 875P Canterwood chipset, 800 FSB, onboard Gigabit ethernet, onboard six-channel audio, OTES onboard cooling technology
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 800 FSB, retail
Video card: ATI Radeon X800 Pro, AGP 8X, 475MHz clock, 256MB 900MHz DDR3 memory, 5.7 Gigapixels/s fill rate
Storage: Western Digital WD2000JD, 200 GB serial ATA drive, 7200 rpm, 8MB cache
Optical: Lite-On combo drive, supports 52x CD-read/32x CD-rewrite/52x CD-write/16x DVD-read, black
System memory: Samsung 3200 DDR 400 memory, dual 512MB modules for a total of 1 GB
Power supply: Thermaltake 480W Xaser
Case: Lian Li PC-61 mid-tower case, black aluminum, 4 case fans
Floppy drive: Sony 1.44 floppy drive, black
Operating system: Windows XP Home Service Pack 1
The X800 Pro video card is so new it isn't in most stores yet (including Tech-E's). Because I kind of need this computer as soon as I can get it, I ordered the card from Best Buy (managing to get it for actual retail price, too -- most retailers that actually have the card are charging horrendous markups). Should have that in a couple of days; meanwhile Tech-E's is putting the rest of the machine together with a base-level card. They'll complete the system when I bring the X800 Pro to 'em, at which point I shall be an EXTREMELY happy camper.
Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 in 32-bit color with 4xFSAA & 8xAniso filtering enabled, getting 70 FPS framerate, here I come!
Oh, and one more amusing thing. When one buys $1700 worth of computer equipment in one afternoon, one's credit union freaks out and has their Fraud Prevention department give one a phone call to ensure the charges are legit. :)
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Currently playing: J. S. Bach -- Great Organ Works (Biggs). E. Power Biggs was a master when he sat in front of an organ's keyboard, and he shows it on this collection of some of Bach's greatest compositions for the organ.