Erik D. Jones’s Blog

I’ve been working from home more often lately and sitting at the coffee table and working from a laptop programming and such gets old. It gets old because my laptop (while only two years old and still pleasantly zippy thanks to Ubuntu Linux) has only a 15″ display. Doing web development where you’re writing code, testing, switching between browser and development environment.. uggh.. gets tiring. So I decided it was time for a new computer!!!!

Specs:

• Samsung 275T 27″ 1920×1200 LCD monitor 3000:1 contrast ratio
• Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz (overclocked to 3.2GHz)
• Asus P5E motherboard (IntelX38 chipset)
• 4 G Corsair Ballistix 1066DDR2-8500 RAM
• 4 x Seagate Baracuda 7.2K RPM 360G S-ATA 3GB drives (H/W RAID 5)
• EVGA nVidia 8800GTX PCI-E video card factory overclocked to 620Mhz DDR 768MB
• Samsung DVD+-RW S-ATA drive
• Creative Labs XFI Xtreme-gamer sound card
• Coolmaster 830 case
• Ultra X3 1000W power supply
• 3x Scyth SFF21F fans
• Thermaltake Ultra-120 extreme CPU heat sink
• Arctic Silver 5(AS5) heat adhesive

This is one of the first computers I’ve put together since I last built a 500MHz Pentium almost 7 years ago! It’ll be a great replacement to my 2.2Ghz Pentium D with 1.5Megs of RAM and 120G of disk and an old ATI Radio 9xxx video card.. woo!