I am fed up with this slow computer I have. I've been meaning to upgrade it for a few years now. So far, I've put in a new hard drive, doubled the RAM and installed a CD-RW. This was still two years ago.
I'm not going to tell you the current specs because I don't want everybody laughing at me (no, seriously :-)) but here's what's coming:
AMD Athlon 64 3200
ASUS Motherboard with Gigabit Ethernet
1GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM
nVidia Geforce MX4000 128MB 64-bit AGP video card
Pretty new case to put all the goodies in
The old hard drive, monitor, keyboard and mouse are going to have to do until I get new ones. The machine, of course, has a lot more horsepower than I need. A gig of RAM is more than my current RAM plus my swap partition, but I figured too much is a lot better than not enough. I don't have anything else that supports Gigabit ethernet, but it comes with the motherboard. The graphics card is way more than I'll ever use, but it was cheap and comes with Linux drivers. I'd never splurged on a computer, and in fact I've never had a machine that performed even on par. I've always gotten secondhand systems because I never had the need for serious performance, but man I wanted somethin' good this time. :-)
I was hoping to have it before the weekend, but that apparently isn't going to happen. Oh well, I'll be patient. They sent out shipments from two different warehouses, but both are scheduled to be here on Tuesday (according to FedEx). But one shipment is already here in Texas (did I mention I moved to Texas?) and the other made it as far as Tennessee, so it may all be here on Monday. That'd be nice because I want to get it set up ASAP and quit waiting so long for this computer to process everything. I shouldn't have to wait on it; it should be waiting on me.
LaVa
Sat Jun 18th 00:02:48 2005
Congrats on getting the new computer. You have to splurge every so offten. But you can never have to much Ram no such thing. Let us know how that 64bit works out. I knew a guy that had it and said even though a lot of the apps were in 32bit the computer was flying. So I think my next computer will be 64 as well.