Ah, now I can rest peacefully, I finally got some new parts to build a new system. The processor is an AMD Phenom x4, with 2 MBs of L2 cache (512k per core), and 2 MBs of L3 cache. The motherboard is an Asus M4N78 Pro, and I’m really impressed with it. The Asus Express Gate allows users to boot to a basic proprietary OS that offers the ability to get on the net, this actually bypasses Windows, so it’s definitely a good thing for people like me who may not need to boot into Windows but have to get on the net often. There’s a feature called Turbo Key that allows users to overclock the system with the touch of a button, the power button to be exact. You can also overclock it manually if you want, within the BIOS, so if you’ve got an unlocked processor, and memory that can be overclocked, you’ll love this motherboard. Onboard is the nVidia Geforce 8300 GPU, which is SLI capable, so you can utilize both the onboard GPU and the GPU from a video card combined to aid with rendering and advanced graphics aspects such as gaming and CAD. It’s also got HDMI, DVI, and VGA ports on the motherboard. I also got 4 GBs of Corsair memory (PC6400, Two 2GB sticks running in dual channel mode), so the system will have plenty of memory to utilize for games and demanding programs such as 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, Maya, Lightwave 3D, and Creative Suite 4.
I couldn’t very well run that kind of system with my old, outdated 500 watt power supply, it’s not even an ATX 2.0 formfactor power supply, so I got a new 700 watt power supply that is ATX 2.2 / EPS 2.91 ready, with quad +12V output rails, so I don’t have to worry about running out of juice if I put all of my hard drives in there. Speaking of hard drives, I had already bought a 1 Terabyte SATA hard drive, so I put that one in there, and two 500 GB hard drives that was concatinated into one 1 Terabyte hard drive, an external one that went bad. I found out the hard way that it was the first hard drive which went bad, because it won’t recognize at all in the BIOS when I hook it up. Oh well, I guess I lost all that data that was on it, but right now I’m running a long search in File Scavenger on the second hard drive, so at least I can get whatever data is on the second one. After I copy it over to the new 1 TB hard drive, I’ll format it, and use it for more storage.
Good news though, I found out the hard way that what caused my older system to stop working was the video card. I tried putting it into the new system, and it wouldn’t power on at all. After being stumped for a few (the power light on the motherboard came on, but the system wouldn’t power on at all), I figured I’d take the video card out, and sure enough it started working from that point on. So, now all I have to get is another PCI Express video card for the new system, and another one for my older system, and I can turn the older system into my server. The system isn’t really designed to be a server, but the Athlon 64 Processor, and the 2 GBs of memory, will be alot better than the Pentium 3 processor and the 512 MBs of memory that is in my current server, the one running WordPress, which allows me to write these blogs.
Dang, I know I probably wrote over most people’s heads, I can’t help it that I’m a computer geek, and an I.T. guru, but that’s just because I love what I do, I am very passionate about my professional career.
So yeah, I’m in a good mood right now. I’d be in a better mood if I had a woman to love on, I tell you that!
I’m not suggesting that I want to stay up under her all the time, I can do my own things, just as I’m sure she can, but it would be nice to have some conversation every once in a while. It would be nice to spend some time with a woman some time. It would be wonderful to make love to a woman every so often.
This geek hasn’t been kissed in years!