I can haz new computer!

[melchar]

Yesterday/today Boojumbunn helped me build a computer system [and did most of the actual work - and told me what was the nifty stuff to buy]. Using the MS rating system, it comes in as a 5.9 [which tops his 5.8 for his beefiest system - so it is exceptional].

Mainly for Vrghr: 'Riff' is in a Antec case, has a gigabite brand motherboard; an Intel core 2 quad CPU 8400 at 2.66 Ghz; has a 1 terabyte SATA hard drive; 4 gigs of RAM; an Nvidia geoforce GTX 260 graphics card, an HP 2009m 20" monitor and the OS is 64 bit Vista Home Premium.

Riff is currently doing Windows updates [about 60% done of 316 MB] - and then gets to have games and my info loaded into him. Whew! ^_^

Comments

[vrghr.livejournal.com]

Mmm! That's quite a nice upgrade there! Wuffy is sure you're going to enjoy the heck out of that. And you'll love what it does to the graphics detail and speed on CoH! *grins*

Make sure you keep backups of the 'goodies' you put in there. A terabyte worth of storage encourages one to keep all sorts of things "handy" in it. But can be much weeping if the drive goes poof.

Will love to get a look at it next time I get out your way! (whenever that might be)

[melchar.livejournal.com]

nod nods! Yay for thumb drives - makes backups SO much easier.

[daytime-moon.livejournal.com]

woooza, that's a pretty impressive machine boojum dreamed up for you. I am both impressed and envious of your beefy new machine! kudos :)

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I've needed a new computer for years - and finally decided to spend the cash I've saved to get it. i'd been putting it off ...for a while, just because things kept getting better. ^_^

[gil-liant.livejournal.com]

You know the old adage about computer equipment: "If it's out of the box, it's obsolete." ^_^

[daytime-moon.livejournal.com]

isn't that always the case with gadgets? doh!

[ericlarson.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd consider an external hard drive. Do the math - 1 TB = 16 64GB thumb drives (say $130 each = $2080) versus a 1TB external ($120 on the web).
Ka-ching!