This Will Bore You
Feb 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm by Chris
Just to get away from all the primary fun for a moment, I want to introduce you to my new toy. I spent Friday night building this thing and, though there’s still some work to be done, I’m pretty pleased with the results.
The beer is included as a reference to get an idea of the size of the thing. Quite obviously, I’m wholeheartedly dedicated to compensating for the inadequacies of my genitalia with a massive computer.
Here it is from the top.
And here are the innards.
Obviously I’m going to need to redo the wiring as it’s a big mess right now and it’s screwing up the airflow a little bit. This is sort of a first draft. Also, I’m going to reinstall the CPU heat sink because the CPU in running a few degrees hotter than I’d like. Nothing awful, but not great. I applied the thermal paste like a moron so this is to be expected. Eating paste has always been been more my forte anyway, so it comes as no surprise that I’d fuck up when it comes time to use it for something other than consumption.
Here’s a picture of the innards with the VGA air duct installed, covering up some of my slop.
Now for some specifics. The CPU is an Intel Quad Core 2.4ghz (Q6600 G0 stepping). I’ve only got a mild overclock on it right now (2.8ghz), but I plan to squeeze everything I can out of it that I can once I have the time and I have the cooling sorted out. The motherboard is an NVidia 780i made by EVGA. It has two NVidia 8800 GT 512 MB graphics cards running in SLI mode. The memory is OCZ DDR2 800mhz memory running in SLI mode with, again, only mild overclocking for the moment (948mhz). The case is a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 full tower and the CPU heat sink is an OCZ Vindicator. Right now it has just two hard drives, but I’ll be adding a third small hard drive for a dedicated Linux (Ubuntu) secondary boot.
Use this space to discuss why I should have bought a Mac and/or kittens.
But where does the beer go?
How come no lights running around the edge? When I grow up and learn enough to build mine, it will so have lights running along the edge.
This is graphics stuff. What do you do, aside from giving people passwords?
You were rignt. It did bore me . But there isn’t a lot of interesting writing to be found anywhere.
So, what kind of beer?
where’s the dual exhaust?
Super, the beer is a Magic Hat Circus Boy. It’s a pretty decent hefeweizen. Not the best, but decent. K, while I love me some password resets, I do have other interests.
Actually,
that was bit rank to throw ata panda man.
I did put a sound card in one of my computers a coupla years back and was surprised when the thing didn’t go off like a fireworks celebration at a NY Giants Superbowl victory celebration! ;oP
If you had a Mac, you wouldn’t have needed a new computer in the first place.
This is kind of like tech porn, isn’t it.
My son works for Apple, little, corporate bastard, Steve Jobs lovin’, hallucinatin’, fool! He’s determined to ruin me as he now has me browsing the net from a 32″ flat screen, through a Nintendo Wii system. If I can get beer and food delivered to the couch, my journey can be considered a success :o)
memyself, duel exhaust? Duel exhaust? Pfft. Shit, I’m not running some low rent Nissan Altima upgrade chop shop here. This thing has four exhausts. But you’re right, I should probably get some chrome exhaust tips just to be sure nobody makes the same mistake.
Super, that panda deal is old school. The adorable ass shit I asked you to discuss was kittens. William, the computer has a couple of funky little plastic trays that come out when you hit one of the buttons on the front. I’ll admit they’re a bit flimsy, but you could stick a beer on one if you’re in a pinch. Otherwise, just pop the case open and pour the beer right on the motherboard. Helps to keep things cool. Make sure the power is on when you do it. Let me know if you have any trouble.
What kind of gas mileage does this little sucker get?