It lives!

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posted on 13 Apr 2007 under category News

I played a hi-tech Dr. Frankenstein over the past week and weekend. Trolling through online computer part graveyards for pieces. Assembling them in my lab. And, finally, juicing it up with a shitload of electricity.

And it lives - my new PC is alive. But not complete.

Inside an Antec Sonata II case:

  • Intel DP965LT Motherboard Intel Core2 Duo E6400 Processor (2x 2.13GHz processors, 1066MHz FSB)
  • 2 250 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0GB/s Hard Drives
  • 2 GB Memory (2x1GB sticks - and the board runs memory in dual-channel)
  • eVGA Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS video card (PCI-E, 256MB VRAM)

The board has integrated audio, which is fine for games and general junk. I will bring over my Audiotrak Maya44 Recording Audio card when Bellum Aeternum is finished mixing, since I don’t think that Sonar 2 tracks will behave well in Sonar 6. Plus, it gives me impetus to get the fucking thing done, finally. Also, I’m currently coasting along on some old 4/4/24 CDRW burner for an optical drive until I can move the DVD-RW drive from the old PC as well (still got a ton of files to archive and such - though I guess I could just move them over my network).

Anyway, it’s this new machine that I’m writing this now on. It really wasn’t that bad - being my first time, even though everyone says it’s easy, I was fearing massive problems of one sort or other. Fortunately, it all went fine.

(Another nice snapshot. Again, I’m still on largely the same PC. Life cycles for newer equipment are getting shorter, but usable life strangely is getting longer - there’s no way the computer I recorded This End Up on could have handled Displeasures, while this one managed to record the Death Beast live album, and I’m confident this PC can handle “The Onslaught” too.)