My old box is dying. After over 4 1/2 years of faithful service, it's ready for retirement. It's been my baby. I built it from the motherboard up. A couple of months ago, I had to do a heart transplant when the power supply died.
It's old and slow. It has a decent CPU , an AMD XP2000 chip, for a brain . It started with 512 MB of Ram and I've since doubled that. I've had to replace the CD-ROM drive awhile back ago. I updated the Video card about a year ago from an Nvidia GeForce 400 with 64 MB to an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 or 5500 (I don't remember which) with 256 MB of Video RAM. I also upgraded the video monitor to a Dell 17 inch flat panel a year or more back.
I ordered the new box from Dell. I looked at HP, Gateway, eMachine, Microtel and even an iMac and decided on the Dell. I've ordered 3 others from Dell over the pst few years and I have to say that so far, I've had no real problems. I'm sure there are horror stories out there. I'm hoping this goes as well and works as well as the others.
Dell Dimension E521; AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 Dual-Core 4600+
Operating System: Genuine Windows VistaTM Home Premium
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
Hard Drive: Free Upgrade!320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
CD ROM/DVD ROM: Dual Drives: 16X DVD ROM Drive and 48X CD-RW/DVD Combo
Monitor: 19 inch UltrasharpTM 1907FP Digital Flat Panel
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
Sound Cards: Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers: Dell AS501 10W Flat Panel Attached Spkrs for UltraSharpTM Flat Panels
Keyboard and Mouse Bundles: Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
I should get it in a couple of weeks. I'm gonna miss the old work horse but I'm looking forward to the new machine and also trying out Windows Vista.
VW
Quit showing off ya big geek!
Posted by: canuckistani | Friday, February 02, 2007 at 18:16
You know us boys and our toys!
Mama gives her take over at the FLC.
VW
Posted by: Violence Worker | Saturday, February 03, 2007 at 17:01