I’ve been busy getting my new PC rig set up and ready to romp and stomp, so I’ve pretty much gone AWOL online for the past week. Hopefully things will get back to normal once I adjust to the new computer and get used to the new Windows 7 interface. After 8 years, there’s so much to catch up on!
Old guy, meet new guy.
I got my PC custom built from an online boutique, deciding I was ultimately better off getting it pre-built than putting the parts together myself, which would have taken me several weeks to pull off. Not worth the aggravation. I was a bit apprehensive about how well put together it would be, but after a careful inspection I could see my beautiful new toy had been perfectly put together:
Woooo, so neat and orderly, so.. so... geeky!
My, that's a nice big fan you have there...
After inspecting everything and making sure all was tight and secure, it was time to light up the darkness:
All systems go! Fox 3, standing by...
The world will never be the same again.
After uploading my data from my old computer, I spent all of St. Patrick’s Day installing software and tweaking, and then tweaking some more. And because I like to live life on the edge, I kept overclocking my CPU to push the performance even more, which is kind of silly given how stupid fast it already is now. When I first booted up, I took a sip of my coffee and then almost spat it out when I saw I was already in Windows.
Holy flipping monkey sticks…
Everything loaded, instantaneously. Youtube: instantaneous, even at high def. Even my blog loaded at lightning speed. It was… wondrous. Epic. Life altering. A GAME CHANGER. :-D
And then of course I had a problem with the power supply.
I had gotten one of, if not the best rated power supply in the market, the 750TX PSU made by Corsair, but for some reason when I would shut down the PC, the power supply fan still kept right on going. After hours of googling, I finally decided I was going to have to swap this thing out with another and see if the same thing happened. If it turned out to be the motherboard that was at fault, I would be in a world of doody. It meant having to pull apart everything and putting it back together again like Humpty Dumpty.
Fortunately that catastrophe was averted and sure it enough it was indeed the PSU that was at fault. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeew!
Right now the defective PSU is in a box, which I’ll return back to the store I bought it from for a full refund… I hope. Why yes, I did in fact make a switcharoo so I can avoid the RMA headaches of shipping back a defective item when I can easily swap it for a good one at a local store! Don’t judge.
After that hiccup, it was pretty much smooth sailing from there. This is really going to do wonders for my productivity too. The photos I uploaded here took only seconds to resize and upload because of the much improved performance of my new rig. I can’t wait to match that with a new MacBook too. Maybe then I’ll finally put together a multimedia content creation solution that will help bridge the gap between my experiences in the real world, and my blogging online. We’ll see!
In the meantime, I’ll be gaming. A lot.
Nuclear powered, and ready to be a badass.
Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeee, aren't I pretty?
And for those of you who are truly a geekzoid, here are my new system specs:
- CoolerMaster Storm Sniper Mid-Tower Gaming Case
- Intel® Core™ i7-930 2.80 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366 (o/c to 3.6Ghz)
- CoolerMaster V8 Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
- Asus P6X58D Premium Motherboard
- 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz DDR3 (Corsair Dominator)
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB DDR5 16X PCIe Video Card
- 160 GB Intel X25-M G2 Solid State Drive (Booyah!)
- LG 22X DVD±/±RW + CD-R/RW Dual Layer Drive
- Corsair Power Supplies CMPSU-750TX
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
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I neglected to ask how big is your monitor? 160G hard drive? A little small for such an awesome system isn’t it. Looks great.
My previous drive was 80GB and I never filled it up. It’s a tradeoff between space and performance so I chose performance. I would NEVER go back to a normal hard drive now, although I would get a secondary drive for data storage should I run out of space.
I have a 24 inch monitor by the way.
What’s a normal hard drive? A smaller one? I had an 80 G now I have a 640G which is ridiculous. I never filled more than 50% of my previous drive. However the world is getting more complexed. \:n)
Normal hard drives have moving parts. I’m using a solid state drive that has no moving parts and hence torches traditional drives in terms of speed. :-D
Faster and cooler. More efficient,I like that. You Da Man.
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