It consists of the following:
All-black (no chrome or bubbling lights) Lian Aluminum case
(LIAN LI PC-A05B Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case)
ASUS motherboard
(ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard)
Nvidia video card
(XFX PVT84JYDF3 GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card)
450W power supply
(Antec earthwatts EA430 430W ATX12V v2.0 Power Supply)
3 Ghz Intel dual-core processor
(Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400)
4 gigs of dual channel RAM
(Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR667D2N5K2/4G)
Card reader
(SUPER TALENT INTAIN1MCR All-in-one Card Reader)
500 Gb hard drive
(Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive)
2 DVD RW drives
(PHILIPS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model SPD2413BM/17)
And, yet to come, two 20.1-inch wide-screen LDC monitors
(SCEPTRE X20WG-1080P Black 20.1" 5ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor)
Got the motherboard and the power supply installed, but holding off on the rest, for the time being, as neighbor and I like to do this sort of thing, augmented by moderate (or slightly more) quantities of scotch.
2 comments:
Wow!! 2 questions:
1. What if "granpa" knows of the blog? Will this not spoil the surprise?
2. What OS will it run? Doesn't look like you bought an OS, so hopefully something good, like Linux?
3. How much did all of this costs?
Oops that was three questions.
Hi Zeeple,
So many questions!
1. Grandpa is highly unlikely to know about this blog because:
a) It is only 3 days old; and even the most ardent blog readers are not likely to have stumbled across it yet (as far as I know, only you and I know about it), and
b) Grandpa is about as far from an ardent blog reader as one can get; in fact, I'd venture to say that he's never even seen one, and likely does not even know what a blog is.
2. This system will run Windows XP Pro, because of the primary applications that Grandpa uses (there are no Linux versions available).
3. Sorry, only two questions per customer...
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The hardware was ~$1260, and the OS was ~$37.50 (all prices including shipping and tax), so, all told, just under $1300.
I'm considering installing a dual boot configuration with some Linux distro, but just not sure which yet. My neighbor has downloaded some 350 different distros, so we have plenty from which to choose.
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