Christmas Has Come Early
Posted: 7th October 2008
I've been 12 years old again today as my new computer parts started arriving today! I've been in cold sweats as I've handled a new CPU, graphics card and, unbelievably, a sound card (can't remember the last time I used one of those). Hopefully the rest of the parts should be arriving over the next few days and then it'll be time to fire up the beast! Below are the specs of this wonderful (to me) machine:
- Asus P5Q Deluxe iP45 Socket 775 Motherboard
- 2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 SATA2 7200RPM 32MB cache
- LG Electronics Blu-Ray & HD-DVD-Rom Combo 16x DVDRW Black SATA - Retail Box With Software
- Sapphire HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
- Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case - No PSU
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer
- Be Quiet! DarkPower Pro 650W PSU
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Kentsfield
- 2x OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC2 6400 800MHz CI4 Dual Channel Reaper HPC
Once its built I'll be implementing my first RAID system - I think I'll go for RAID 1 as it will take me a while to fill 1TB of data or to be more precise: the hard drive will fail before I fill it up with 1TB of data.
Photos will follow soon!