How quickly time flies and how yesterday’s monster computer becomes just good enough to get by. This year I’m finally sending my previous computer build down to the basement as a full-time HTPC, and I’ll be building a new machine to take it’s place as my main rig. My current motherboard/ram/cpu is a couple generations old and the graphics card is three generations back. I could probably squeeze another year or so of decent use from it, but it’s regularly stressed now and having a little trouble keeping up with the 24″ monitor I’m using these days. Seeing the RAM and both cores maxed like this is becoming fairly common:
This weekend I just picked up my first component, the i7 920 processor. This is the low-end model in Intel’s new 1366 socket line of chips. The chip is a quad core, with an integrated, triple channel memory controller (Intel finally joins AMD’s thinking here), 8MB of shared L3 cache and a stock clock of 2.66GHz. Apparently it overclocks very well, too, making it much more popular than the other two higher priced chips in this line.
By the way, it’s interesting to see that my first post of my previous computer build was three years ago to the day.
Tags: Comp hardware / mods
I think I am going to have to keep on keepin’ on with my current rig. Everytime I price one out for me, I can’t cost justify it enough.
I should take a second job (if I can find one) just to pay for my PC habit.
I knows what cha mean. I paid for my last build completely off of freelance work. Probably time for me to line up a couple more jobs 🙂