My 2 year old faithful A.I died on me, probably due to some fault with the motherboard or power supply unit. Well, it had served me well, but things always have to move on. As such, the Arbalest will be retired for good, and the Laevatein will assist me as of now.
The plastic panel on the casing’s front’s a fingerprint magnet!
My new buddy’s packs a decent Core2Duo 3.0Ghz processing power, possess a 9800GT, storage of 2 500GB drives, 2 strips of 2GB ram. The visual outputs consist of a DVI output for the primary 22″ screen, and a HDMI output for the secondary 26″.
Such machinery doesn’t come cheap, but considering that the whole unit cost a decent 1,400 Singapore dollars. My financial account feels drained out. Still, it was quite a worth purchase. At least I don’t have to do a troublesome switch over to my laptop just to watch mkv files.
I’m currently running on Windows Vista now, and I find that it’s a really crappy piece of OS as compared to XP. Once I get the time, I’m going to install Ubuntu and play around with it.
Now, the only problem I foresee is when the power bills arrive in next month. My power supply unit’s 500W, and considering the duration I leave it powered on, it’s no surprise if the bill suddenly turns out more pricey.
Anyone else customs their PCs? I’m pretty sure tech-savvy otakus would rather buy the various parts and piece together their own nodes, rather than just buying the prefixed overpriced nodes sold by the numerous companies. If you did, how much did you spend?
I still have my Aspire T180 running for a year now, although its specs isn’t really noteworthy.
It’s understandable that most 1337 otaku would rather pimp their computer to the max and show-off, but I look at a pragmatic side of computing lifestyle. If the gadget works, it’ll work for me. I don’t really care about the hype surrounding the latest GPU or CPU wars: eventually the consumer wins.
Gonna hoota 2K with 24 incher HD
1,400 is consider cheap by today standard
Once you customize, you can never go back.
Year and a half with my 8800 GTS and it dies on me, at least it was under warranty and I got it replaced for free. 4 GB RAM, XP Pro here, yeah I was guessing I would need to give Vista something like 5 years before it gets stable lol. Dual core, forgot the speed as well. I think anything quad is just too overkill right now.
Nice price you got your stuff for. I still only have a 19″ though.
when will scientists/engineers come out with wireless power? the power cables are really a mess.
off your com daily?
My quad core’s not here yet, and your Graphics Card kicks my card’s ass.
I think people don’t customize their computers to save money, but to have *the parts* that they want. At least this is how it is with me. So basically you spend the same, and not necessarily for a better configuration, but which is much more suited for you.
Also, have fun with Ubuntu
Well I gave up on Windows when Vista came out and switched to a 8-core Mac Pro that set me back about 3k. Which I have since upgraded to 6gigs of ram and added a 1TB hd, which is getting close to full so it’s almost time to add a second 1TB.
@Gordon: The technology to transmit power wirelessly is already out there. Its just not very effective. We can power a light bulb, but we can’t charge a laptop or power a computer for nuts yet.
TP > My old PC was an Acer too.
Panther > Quad is only needed for video and graphics rendering, iirc.
gordon, stifler > Yea, my cables are in a total mess. Gotta sort them out once I shift the position of my current table.
Kippei > Actually HDMI output for PCs look really sucky.
tiny > I would like to, but leaving my node on has been a bad habit of mine.
C.I. > 9800GT isn’t really expensive.
Sasa > It’s more of value for money rather saving money. I think.
TheGeek > 6 gigs of ram is overkill >_>
For 1.4k is a pretty good setup