Final Configuration on New Toy…
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Me
So it is finally time to build a new pc here in the Wolfcat household… after 5 years the old one after having most of its internals replaced over the years is about to be made history….
And Final Configuration I have gone with… ( 30th July 09)
- Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz
- GA-EX58-UD4P (decided to go up a model for the extra ram and sata ports)
- Western Digital Caviar Green Power 1.0TB 7200RPM 32MB SATA 3Gbs (didn’t need the extra expense of the 500meg as I already have a 1tb drive as well… 2tb will be enough to start with :-))
- LG SATA Blu-Ray Writer (Bugger it…. only $50 more for the writer and faster DVD burning as well + Lightscribe)
- Kingston DDR3 6GB PC-10600/1333 (3x2GB) x2 (bugger it … going for the 12gig of ram option… read that ddr3 ram likes to be in lots of 3 🙂
- Coolermaster HAF 922 + Antec 850w PSU
- HIS H487F1GP Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 (worked out better than getting 2 sli 9800gt’s)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (to be replaced with 64bit Windows 7)
- Samsung 23.6″ 2492 HS
The Old Computer
… what I am upgrading from…Â oh this will be a change…
- Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
- Western Digital 1.0TB 7200RPM 32MB SATA 3Gbs (motherboard only supports 1.5gbps) + 250gb and 320gb Hd’s (1tb and 320gb to be migrated)
- LEG DVD 16x Dvd Burner +Pioneer DVD/CDRW (Burner to be migrated)
- 2 Gig DDr2 Ram
- Creative SB Live Sound Card
- No name 300 Power supply as the last one blew over a year ago.
- No name case which hasn’t had the side on it for many years (see photo)
- Geforce FX 5600
- Windows XP Sp3
- Chimei 22″ LCD (Currently in VGA mode as old video card doesn’t support dvi at panels’ native resolution) (to become second monitor)
Surprised you didn’t opt for Windows 7 RC considering its been locked in as the same code version as Retail Win7
yeah… but will get machine… get a working image.. then register for upgrade to win7 anyway… as this is what the machine has been built for.