Still a geek :)

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Here's my latest note from Facebook:

My new computer
by Eleanor Catherine Blair on Thursday, 14 October 2010 at 14:04

Specs for those as might be interested: Motherboard/CPU: Intel DH55TC inc Core i5-660 3.33GHz 4MB Cache/Graphics

• Case: Mini Tower ATX Case High Efficiency 80
• Power supply: Zalman ATX 600W Power Supply Ultra Quiet
• Hard disk: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM 32MB SATA
• CD/DVD writer: Samsung Internal 22xDVD-RW SATA Black
• Memory: 4 x 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM
• Graphics: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 HDMI Dual DVI DP DX11
• OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM DVD

And I stole the wifi card out of my old machine :)

Used Windows Easy Transfer and an external USB drive to copy over about 70GB of data and setup from the old machine. Still have to install quite a few programs by hand, but did Firefox and Putty this morning along with McAfee AV and I was pleased to see all my Firefox bookmarks and so on have been preserved - and the wifi card still works. Thankfully I've developed a habit of saving the installers of programs I've downloaded and installed, so they were all in one directory ready for me to run again :)

I'm seriously looking forward to seeing how Starcraft II runs on this.

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Not bad.

Is that a pre-built, or something built from components?

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Ordered from a local supplier, mostly using a configuration tool, but I asked them to swap the graphics card and they recommended the bigger PSU to go with it. They built to order in one day, and delivered the next when I could arrange to be in.

Starcraft time :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

WoC, or someone else?

(The number of times I wandered over to Milton.)

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Right in one :)