It has been a true exercise patience to have all my new hardware
sitting in a heap on the floor, having not touched it for the past 3
days (been hitting the books pretty hard over here, kinda burnt out
actually), so as a reward I’ve decided to begin assembling my new
machine tonight. Sixer of beer? Check. Good tunes in
the background? Check. Got rid of the annoying cat who
would ultimately end up evenly distributing all of the small parts
around my apartment? Roger that (though that’s not why I got rid
of him…another post though). Some folks wanted to know the specs
of my new machine, so here they are:
Those are just the new parts. Here are the peripherals that this thing will ultimately drive:
So why am I throwing so much horsepower into this thing? Well,
I haven’t formally announced it yet (because I haven’t formally
committed…yet), but I’m looking to get into some audio production in
the not-so-distant future. It’s something I’ve always wanted to
do…more on that later though. That, and I am somewhat of a gamer;
Doom 3 runs at about 10fps on my current desktop (an Intel P4 2.0ghz
machine, built about 3 years ago)…I don’t play often, but when I do I
want it to be decent. Plus it was just time for a new machine.
So this will bump me up to 3 full time machines (I swore to myself
I’d never go above 2 again, the administrative overhead is tedious at
best): A laptop which serves as my main day to day machine
(internet, email, writing code, etc), this new desktop which’ll be my
multimedia/gaming station, and my old desktop which will be flattened
for Windows Server 2003 and will host my website/databases/etc, along
with some staging VPC images for beta testing, etc. I have a 4th
machine that I powered down for the last time earlier this week, until
about 9 months ago it fulfilled server role…it was an AMD KII (running
at a whopping 400mhz) w/ 256mb/RAM…it actually ran Win2k3 pretty well,
and more recently I used it as a staging machine. She’s had
it…after 6 years of use I think she’s ready to go to the computer parts
portal in the sky.
Feel free to post your specs/benchmarks here, would love to see what you guys are running!
Sidenote: Most of the groups I’ve done work
for have their own separate subdomain for development purposes (as they
should), and we’ve always come up with silly names for the
machines. I’ve seen:
- The seven dwarves.
- Characters from pretty much any Tarantino movie out there.
- Names of famous directors/producers.
- Days of the week/months of the year.
- Biblical names (that was an interesting project to say the least).
- And of course whatever random crap that Windows picks during installation…bleh.
…to name a few. Somewhere along the way I started naming all
of my machines after Star Wars characters. No, I do not dress up
as a storm trooper and attend screenings in said costume…I don’t even
like Star Wars that much. It was just a random thing I started
doing years ago and it stuck, plus they’re easy to remember.
Chastise away :-).
So as I said before, this will either be a good weekend, or a
frustrating one. Hopefully I’ll have the thing booting before
midnight.
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