New computer yayyy
It’s been busy from flying back, moving in, and other new semester things.
As soon as I was fairly settled though, it was off to the races on building my desktop with Jesse. She’s all done and ready to roar now so I’ll throw up her specs. And hopefully more posts will be incoming, this semester shouldn’t be terribly hard…
Hostname: Hitagi (picture on bottom for those of you unexposed to Senjougahara fascination)
Specs:
SILVERSTONE FT01-BW Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Uni-body Computer Case
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler
EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5” Internal HD
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W Power Supply
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner
Windows 7 RTM (From Jesse, how come EEs get MSDNAA and CSs don’t D:)
Dell 2408WFP 24” Monitor and a ghetto Acer 20” (Which hopefully I can make it vertical sometime).
And for giggles I went with the IC Diamond 7 cooling compound (MADE WITH REAL DIAMONDS ZOMG. Got it at Chuan’s insistence that diamonds are a girl’s best friend).
Processor OCed to 3.36 Ghz, not sure if I want to push 3.8 (though a ton of people online have gotten 4+ on worse coolers than mine). Runs at 40C idle, and 65C under heavy load.
Pictures:
Close up picture: We did a decent job at cable hiding if we do say so ourselves. Fairly purty, and you can’t tell from the flash, but the LEDs on the Mobo make it look shiny in the dark.
Desk picture: Speaking of cabling, I never noticed that nightmare underneath my desk O.O The 20” on the side still sort of irks me - time to get an Ergotron mount and make it go vertical, perhaps?
Oblig. Hitagi picture
