The Dawn of a New Era

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News!


Yep, that's right!

My new computer is up and running!

It's been over a year since I decided I needed to replace Elora, my old computer, but the wait has been worth it. No, I'm not trashing Elora, just making her into a secondary comp.

Her name is Friday.
Read Robert Heinlein's book of the same name if you want to know who she was named after.



What Friday has under the hood:

Outside- The Antec 900 Gaming Case. One word for this lovely case: FANS. (And blue LED lights. :w00t: )
Here's the product page at Antech: www.antec.com/Believe_it/produ…

Power Supply: A beefy Antech TruePower Trio 650
Again, here's the page with specs: www.antec.com/Believe_it/produ…

Motherboard: Friday has an Asus M3A78-CM under her hood.
The scoop on that: usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=…

The Processor: Friday's chip is a sexy 64 bit AMD Phenom 4x Quad Core 9950.
Not the absolute fastest thing out there, but probably more processing power than I need...
Here's the specs: www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/P…

RAM: For now, Friday is packing 4GB of OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 memory. I may add more later to bring her up to the 8GB that I have room for.
The specs: www.ocztechnology.com/products…

Video Card: NVIDIA GEForce 9500 GT with 1GB of memory on board.
Specs: www.nvidia.com/object/product_…

Mouse: Friday has a brand new Logitech MX400 Laser Mouse plugged into one of her USB slots. I'm leaving my old Logitech for Elora.
specs on the MX400: www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mic…

Her new boot drive is a 500GB SATA.

I also chucked a CD/DVD player/burner in there.

And yeah, I'm still using Windows XP Home. I know....Just don't say anything about it. I'm waiting on Windows 7.

And thanks to building her myself (with help from my Dad, TThealer56 ) she cost under a grand. I should feel guilty. I don't.
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There's a few things still to get for her as money allows-

A new keyboard. www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Reclu…

New speakers. (I haven't picked out new speakers yet.)

A new mousepad. www.allsop.com/mousepads-and-w…

A new flat panel LCD monitor. I'd like to go a hair larger, and let Elora have this one back.

External drive enclosure for my 500GB IDE data drive. I'm not having good luck with mixing IDE/SATA. This will probably be added within a couple weeks. I need the stuff on that drive. (If you have an enclosure you like, tell me about it.)  

A wireless router, so that I can get Elora back online at the same time. Elora is old, not dead.

Floppy drive/card reader combo. Got one picked out, just can't find the link at the moment.

Another smaller SATA drive to load Ubuntu on.
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What this means to you, my faithful watchers, is that as soon as I get my 500GB data drive attached via drive enclosure, I'll be picking Apophysis back up again.
More fractals will be made!

Now I just need to finish loading my programs....


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I'm drooling with official green envy:D