Posts Tagged ‘IT’
Well – about 3 weeks ago my faithful Dell 8300 finally bit it. Well, bit it enough that I convinced the accounting department of Natural Twenty Games (i.e. my wife) that it was time for a new PC. I’m an IT consultant who was previously A+ Certified years ago but I’ve never put a PC together from scratch. Feeling adventurous and also seeing a monetary advantage I ended up surfing New Egg I put together the following:
- SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5
- 1 PLEXTOR 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-850SA – OEM
- 1 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK
- 1 XFX GS250XZDFC GeForce GTS 250 1GB Core Edition 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
- 1 ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
- 1 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400
- 1 OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
- 1 GIGABYTE Triton 180 Black 0.7mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Total price after rebates – $715.00
Now I already have 2- 20″ Flat Screens so no monitors and last year our VP of PC Manufacturing gave us all copies of Vista Ultimate – which in our recent office move I stored away somewhere where I thought I couldn’t lose it. Of course…I lost it. So I downloaded Windows 7 RC 1 Ultimate x64 and man – I gotta say this is a very good, solid OS. All of my older apps – Corel Paint X, Paintshop Pro XI, all work fine and dandy. GIMP is pumping right along and thank God that I used Carbonite for backing up my stuff. It’s restoring as I type!
Back to work on releasing my games.
