Techno Geek Orgasms
Jul. 25th, 2009 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I scored a new computer today.
Rob's graphic accelerator crashed in his laptop, and of course, being a laptop, it had onboard graphics, which means if we wanted to salvage it, we'd have to replace the entire motherboard. He's pissed off about it, but oh well. He's got my computer now, which has replaceable components & Windows XP.
We're deeper in debt now, but I got an offbrand monster. It's an Asus Essentia, with an Intel Core2 QUAD CORE Q8300 Yorkfield processor - I've moved up to 64-Bit processing, 8G of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce GT220 with 512MB of dedicated onboard RAM, and an 800G hard drive. The only downside to it is Windows Vista, blegh. I get a free upgrade to Windows 7, but I figure I'll hang onto Vista until I get more familiar with it. The tower is huge & the front is slanted - it wouldn't fit in my desk until we took the door off. I need to get a sticker or something for it that says 'TARDIS'.
Of course, now comes the joy of re-installation & copying all my crap from my backup drive onto the new monster. Yay!
Considering that I woke up to the shower scene from Carrie I don't think I'm passing a kidney stone. :P
Rob's graphic accelerator crashed in his laptop, and of course, being a laptop, it had onboard graphics, which means if we wanted to salvage it, we'd have to replace the entire motherboard. He's pissed off about it, but oh well. He's got my computer now, which has replaceable components & Windows XP.
We're deeper in debt now, but I got an offbrand monster. It's an Asus Essentia, with an Intel Core2 QUAD CORE Q8300 Yorkfield processor - I've moved up to 64-Bit processing, 8G of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce GT220 with 512MB of dedicated onboard RAM, and an 800G hard drive. The only downside to it is Windows Vista, blegh. I get a free upgrade to Windows 7, but I figure I'll hang onto Vista until I get more familiar with it. The tower is huge & the front is slanted - it wouldn't fit in my desk until we took the door off. I need to get a sticker or something for it that says 'TARDIS'.
Of course, now comes the joy of re-installation & copying all my crap from my backup drive onto the new monster. Yay!
Considering that I woke up to the shower scene from Carrie I don't think I'm passing a kidney stone. :P
