The power behind the MasterW publishing! Glorious. Just decided to post some pics of the current towers used to bring these posts to you.
The main box, Amy. Powered by an old outdated Athlon64 3200+ @ 2.4 GHz, she has the power and storage to do this stuff. She is one of the reasons this XPS 420 project came up... Fast as she is, a dual core system would be SOOO much nicer.... Most of the time when new stuff shows up here, its her fault.
This is Y2K, my free frankenputer. Thriving since 1998, so long plants start growing on top of it. Running nothing else but Windows 2000 on a PIII 1 GHz @ 1.3 GHz, it only possesses the power to manage the wireless and LAN networks. It occupies a friendly corner in the man-cave, er, garage. This is the tower the XPS 420 will be replacing.
Neglected in a corner is Tower-Of-Power, the superhorse of the fleet. Sporting the i7 920 cruising at 4.0 GHz with 6GB of DDR3 RAM, it has the Wheaties. It also has no RAM now... I was showing off at the PC Gamers LAN party... and burnt it up (sheepish look.) Yey warranties! (Thanks OCZ!)... However this power comes at a cost of about $80/mo alone, so it VERY rarely runs. The XPS 420 hopefully will be a 24/7 warrior.
The hungriest camera in the world, the Olympus FE-115 has the power to keep you scrambling for batteries! Culprit for all the dirt, unless I can con my generous girlfriend into letting my use her Canon (mmm... drools*). That right there is the best example of bathroom-mirror-photography I could muster :P. Look for more great fuzzzzy pictures coming to a blog near you!
The main box, Amy. Powered by an old outdated Athlon64 3200+ @ 2.4 GHz, she has the power and storage to do this stuff. She is one of the reasons this XPS 420 project came up... Fast as she is, a dual core system would be SOOO much nicer.... Most of the time when new stuff shows up here, its her fault.
This is Y2K, my free frankenputer. Thriving since 1998, so long plants start growing on top of it. Running nothing else but Windows 2000 on a PIII 1 GHz @ 1.3 GHz, it only possesses the power to manage the wireless and LAN networks. It occupies a friendly corner in the man-cave, er, garage. This is the tower the XPS 420 will be replacing.
Neglected in a corner is Tower-Of-Power, the superhorse of the fleet. Sporting the i7 920 cruising at 4.0 GHz with 6GB of DDR3 RAM, it has the Wheaties. It also has no RAM now... I was showing off at the PC Gamers LAN party... and burnt it up (sheepish look.) Yey warranties! (Thanks OCZ!)... However this power comes at a cost of about $80/mo alone, so it VERY rarely runs. The XPS 420 hopefully will be a 24/7 warrior.
The hungriest camera in the world, the Olympus FE-115 has the power to keep you scrambling for batteries! Culprit for all the dirt, unless I can con my generous girlfriend into letting my use her Canon (mmm... drools*). That right there is the best example of bathroom-mirror-photography I could muster :P. Look for more great fuzzzzy pictures coming to a blog near you!
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