Or, “The Trials and Tribulations of Buying Online”<\/p>\n
For weeks now, I have been hungrilly searching through the inventoru at NewEgg, cobling together the list of parts that would eventually become my latest computer build. I’ve probably spent about 6 hours on this since January.<\/p>\n
One thing about me though, is that I am impatient. When my tax refund arrived on Friday, there was now way in hell I was going to wait another two days for shipping, and then probably until the end of the week before I could actually meld thos parts together into a computer. Saturday morning, I went to Fry’s.<\/p>\n
The problem with having spent so much time getting the perfect list of parts and then going to another store is not always finding what you spec’d out. I think the only two things on the original list that made it into the final build are the processor and the MP3 player I wanted. The rest is “close enough”. Here’s what actually made it into ‘Hyperion’:<\/p>\n
Antec tower case (I wanted a Centurion, but they didn’t have the no-psu model, and I wasn’t going to pay $40 for a psu I was going to throw away)
\nAntec SmartPower 500W modular psu (spec was 450W, got this for the same price)
\nAMD 3700+ 64-bit proc
\nECS nForce4 motherboard (spec was an MSI model)
\n2Gb PC2100 RAM (1 gig from the old box, another gig I had lying around without enough motherboard slots)
\neVGA 256 Mb GeForce 6600 PCI-E video (this change was good – it turns out the eVGA 6800XT board I saw at NewEgg is a typo and doesn’t exist)
\na pair of Maxtor 100Gb SATA drives in swap bays (spec was Western Digital 40 Gb SATA, which they were out of; these were 15$ more each)
\nCreative Zen Micro 6Gb MP3 player. (Ok, not a computer part, but damn cool anyway :) )<\/p>\n
This is my first time really playing around with a 64-bit processor, and so far I am mightily impressed by the speed. I’m used to having to wait a tick or three when I click on an icon, but the AMD 3700+ reacts almost instantly. OpenOffice.org Calc opens in less than four seconds – without the quickstarter. Firefox in less than two! I can’t wait until I get some time to install Kubuntu’s 64-bit edition.<\/p>\n
Ahh….new computer bliss ;)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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