BigPopaGamer recently showed off his
lady, so I thought I should too since apparently everyone's building new computers right now.
My old girl, Pearl, is still formidable in power due to minor upgrades here and there over the last 4 years. Nevertheless, I knew it was time to move on. I sold Pearl to a friend of mine and spend the last week or two adding in a few new parts, and resetting her up from scratch (and copying all my data off onto my backup drive). I only got around to really setting up my new girl, Morrigan, in the last few days.
This is Morrigan:
As you can see, she's a product placement whore.
Under the hood, nothing out of the ordinary. Big front side fan vent, removable internal hard drive port, standard sort of DVD burner, and card reader (super useful and cheap. I recommend anyone building a computer to get one).
I like windows. I'm not really a fan of LED's at all. But they're pretty hard to avoid these days. I think this is predominantly because these are designed by geeks with poor taste for geeks with poor taste.
If you strip her down nude, you'll see beauty (it's clean beauty though, see cable ties?):
-1000w Dual 40 amp rail (for a total of 80 amps) modular Corsair Power Supply. This is, strangely, the most expensive part of the entire machine. I've never spent this much on a power supply before. It's big, but it's really stable and quiet like a ninja. Good money makes a difference I guess.
-Zalman Ridiculous Heatsink (allows me to overclock to 4ghz)
-It's sitting on a Intel Core 2 Dual 3ghz chip. I think it's 45nm
-4 gigs of ddr2 1066 kingston ram
-nvidia 8800gt. times 2. with a little slutty sli action.
-Hard drives: 2 640gig Sata 2, 1 120gig Sata 2, and one 80 gig ide that I use as a junk drive. I also have a 500 gig external. That's just barely under 2TB total. I'm not even sure what to do with all that space at the moment.
The current downside of SLI for me is that I can't have dual monitor on when I'm using the SLI function. So for now, SLI is mostly going to be for games, or for maya stuff when I don't need dual screens to work. This will eventually be irrelevant because it's given me a reason to invest in one of those 30 inch widescreen lcd's later down the road, although that may be awhile. The total cost for that future investment would be around 1300 + another 300 for a widescreen format wacom tablet, so it will have to wait till either a couple of heavy overtime weeks later on (which are definitely coming), or bonus time next spring.
My original budget pretax/shipping: 1000k
Adjusted budget after new power supply, extra video card and ram: 1400
And just to show I'm somewhat responsible with staying near budget...
+100 in rebates that I forgot to consider in the first place, +200 for selling old machine: Final Budget = 1100 (so only 100 over).
The name reference should be a little more obvious then bigpopa's lovely rig:
And that is all. Most everything is up and running sans a few minor details that will get sorted out over the next 2 weeks. Once all my files are organized and everything's back in place, I'll be recapping and painting again.
Speaking of recaps:
my old machine could handle like 25-30 browser tabs before I got a noticeable slowdown. This new one can handle a ridiculous amount more. I didn't even bother counting.
recaps will be back in a week, 2 tops
Alright. I'm done braggin' about my lady.
(# 0) on 07/23/2008 05:34
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(# 7) on 07/23/2008 07:46
jesus that's a lot of porn-o
(# 8) on 07/23/2008 07:58
I bet if we get Tricia and Morrigan drunk, they would totally make out. Get a little Alien/Succubus lesbian action. That is really hot to think about.....
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(# 10) on 07/23/2008 11:15
I guess I sometimes called my old PC "Buttfucker", but thats because it was going crazy near the end...
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(# 13) on 07/23/2008 12:14
I think I name all of shit major electronics actually. And my car.
(# 14) on 07/23/2008 12:15
I dunno where that"shit" came from in that last comment but it doesn't make sense.. I t hink I was thinking 2 things at once again. -_-
(# 15) on 07/23/2008 12:20
I fucking knew PC gaming was fucking expensive!!! You spent a million bucks on that!
Also, for shit's sake, take out the removable drive bay, dismantle the handle, then spray paint all of it flat black! It's cheap - you can get a can of that shit for several bucks!
Out of curiosity - is it a hot-swappable SATA bay?
(# 16) on 07/23/2008 12:22
...fucking.
(# 17) on 07/23/2008 15:11
Seriously, grats on the new PC!
(# 18) on 07/23/2008 15:53
lol. I thought about painting it black, but I'm too lazy. Plus the machine is already really gaudy with all the freaking LED's they stick in everything these days.
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(# 20) on 07/23/2008 19:01
My original plan was to get 4 fans with blue LEDs, but with UV reactive redish-orange fan blades... use it in conjunction with the PS sheaths, and then put my UV-reactive Wolfenstein logo, but I didn't want to bother rewiring everything.
Damn.. that logo is too effing awesome to pass up.. maybe I will use it on my next PC.
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(# 22) on 07/25/2008 09:42
But what exactly is the processor??
Congratulations!!
(# 23) on 07/25/2008 18:15
seems powerful.