Monday, November 19, 2007

My Computer

As anyone who knows me knows, I am a bit crazy about computers. I suppose that I could be described as a Technophile - after all, I spend most of my Saturdays fixing up old systems at the ACCRC, and messing around with various levels of technology. I used to constantly tinker with my computer (not anymore - it works perfectly), and I'm planning on upgrading it in a year or two (to a quad-core system. But that, of course, is another story). So, anyways, here are it's specs:

CPU: 3.33GHz Celeron D.
RAM: 2GB, 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2
GPU: GeForce FX 5200, Dual VGA Out
PCI: NIC (10/100), Fan (for the GPU). 1 PCI slot is available.
Motherboard: Machspeed P4MSD-800D2
HDD: 40GB SATA, 320GB SATA (formatted so that only 270GB of it is available), 160GB IDE (the IDE drive is somewhat questionable, nothing important is on it. I'm going to be moving it over into an external enclosure soon, so that I can have a lot of portable storage). Only 97.9GB are free right now - I have a LOT of Anime.
Fans: 7 80mm (CPU, 2 in a PCI slot, 3 case fans put wherever I feel like it, 1 in the power supply), 1 120mm (the other power supply fan). It's rather noisy, but not so much.
Monitors: 2 17-inch CRTs, each running at 768x1024, 85hz. Having two monitors is nice, though it has occasionally made me think that I should be able to move the cursor from my monitors onto a laptop.
Speakers: Standard 2-unit desktop.
Keyboard and Mouse: Wireless keyboard, 5-button Microsoft optical IntelliMouse. Both connect via USB.

That's it, I suppose. When I feel like it, I'll explain my plan to upgrade to a quad-core system (it's a lot cheaper than you think - if all you need is a new CPU (and a CPU fan), Motherboard, GPU, and some RAM, you can buy one for under $600 or $700. And I can support that assertion).