ECS K7S5A motherboard. To top it all off I added a new MSI G4MX440-T Video Card. I bought a new Chenbro chassis and a 300W Power Supply. I brought the chassis cooling fan, hard drives, Firewire card, CDRW and DVDROM drives over from the old machine. I reinstalled WinXP for the hell of it, and decided to install the latest version of Gentoo Linux over the existing installation, built to the specs of the new computer. Man it’s fast. I’ve never seen GTK+ build in under 12 minutes before. On all my old computers it always took somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-45 minutes. YOW! So I’m sure you’re asking me, "Hey Ian! What did you do with the old box? Is it your new webserver? Did you make it into a 2nd computer? Tell me!!!" Actually, it would have been a seventh computer, but I won’t go into detials on that. What I did do was sell the remains to my parents and finally got rid of the POS I’m embarrassed to say I built for them 2 years ago. The specs on this one are modest – it’s an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900 with 1024MB of RAM and a 64MB GeForce2MX400 video card. It’s WAY faster than the old thing, and a HELL of a lot more RELIABLE. The old computer gave them problems frequently and annoyed ME to no end. Of course the worst of it was that I felt bad ‘cuz I built the thing for them and they spent good money on it. In the coming months I’m gonna take the old thing and see what I can’t do to it to make it reliable. Probably gonna need to replace the CPU as that was the ONLY thing we didn’t replace on it. Once it’s stable, I’ll either build Mom a dedicated computer or turn it into a fileserver for them. Either way I vow to make it finally useable, damnit! Anyhow, I really should go back to bed. I amaze myself sometimes at how long-winded I can get when I was really feeling too lazy to post in the first place! With that I’m going horizontal. Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!!]]>
Yes, that IS one GIG of RAM in my parents’ new box.
Now if only I had that in MY new box… 😉
Yeah, a Gig would be nice. My exploits make me sick, and my pocketbook light. I ended up with this Dell P4 2.0 with 768 of 2100 DDR, and i had to replace my laptop, so i managed to find a really nice Mac Powerbook Walstreet 233, i got a great deal on it, and it’s so much nicer then i thought it would be…shit, almost makes me ill, and then there’s my file server, an Acuired PII 333 with 64mb of ram and a 120gb drive, my GF’s Machine, wich has Q’s old Tbird 850, and a 40 gig drive…and then the Laptop i got her Last year….OK I’m Obcessed.!
Yeah, my first box was a P150 with 32MB of RAM. I quickly upgraded that to 64MB of RAM. Then I got a P233MMX. That was followed by a new mobo, which was followed several months later with a K6-2/450 and even more RAM. Eventually I replaced that entire mobo and CPU with my old Athlon 900. The old machine went to my friend Lee and my original mobo and CPU went to somebody in the 12-step program. My P233 became my webserver for the longest time (up until March of last year when I finally got DSL and started hosting everything at home on the Dual PII-266). Now said P233 is my fileserver with a measly 60G disk an an ATA100 controller.
So the 3 boxen I have at home are the P233/256M RAM for the fileserver, the dual P2/266 for the webserver and the Athlon XP 1800+ desktop box. My lappies are the old IBM Thinkpad 365XD P120 with a maxed out 40MB of RAM, an IBM 560X P200 with 96M of RAM and the borrowed-from-work-but-I-hope-to-buy Chembook P3/1.2Ghz with 256MB of RAM and a built in wireless NIC. (which I’m using as my main lappie at the moment.)
You’re obsessed, I’m obsessed. It’s GOOD to be obsessed!