The most bad-ass thing I’ve built this year
I recently gave the lowest bid to the KABVI to build them a custom PC. It’s the first quad-core system I’ve built, and also sports a very bad ass SLI-ready nVidia motherboard (capable of accepting up to three video cards in SLI mode). Plus it has that cool piano black case. Though this wasn’t built to be a gaming system (though it truth, it is capable…I should ask if I can barrow it and play Crysis). It was built to be fast, familiar and stable, which is why it’s running Windows XP and not Vista. It’s great to know you can still buy OEM licenses for SP3. So thumbs up, Microsoft!
The PC was set up to function as a networked server. I installed wireless adapters in two other PCs and maped shortcuts to a shared folder on the central PC that the other two can move files to. I also donated a laser printer, a nice HP Laserjet 1200 that was given to me by another client of mine.
Here is the obligatory photo of the guts:
It even has a floppy drive with flash memory card readers built in. Bling bling!
Anyway, it was a fun build. First time I actually had to attach the heat sink with a backplate and screw pins. (Yeah, it’s an Intel system). I think the power supply might have weighed just as much as the case. And the 22-inch widescreen LCD they had me plug it into was pretty sweet too.
Friday, August 22nd, 2008