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airspirit · 01-31-2003, 03:35 PM

Athlon XP 1700+ JIUCB @ 2000/1.70V
XMS 3200 256MB @ 2-2-2-4/2.77V
EPoX 8RDA+ w/ Vantec Copper Iceberq
v92 PCI Modem
GF2MX400 64MB
Vantec 6040 Copper HSF
56X CDROM
Floppy Drive
60GB HDD
Windowed case w/ 3 80mm fans
350W PSU
17" ViewSonic P70F PerfectFlat monitor

This entire case/monitor/kb/mouse is black with silver accents. It is running fast and strong, and absolutely tears through anything I put it up against. Idle 46C/Load 55C. Not only is it ultra fast, but relatively quiet, as well (36 dB). This is a commission build for a 60 year old client who wanted a computer for office type work, occassional gaming for the grandkids, and something that would be not only easy on the eyes stylewise, but easy on the eyes on the monitor (hence the $250 professional grade monitor). I've bumped the CPU up to over 2250 Mhz at 1.85V, but she won't need that kind of speed, so I'm going for the longevity route.

Before I sunk my claws into her, she was looking at $2000 Dells and Gateways ... and none of them would fly as fast as this beast. I'm getting a nice commission out of this project, as well, besides getting my jollies off on tooling with hardware.

01-31-2003, 03:35 PM	#1
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Sweet $800 Computer Project Athlon XP 1700+ JIUCB @ 2000/1.70V XMS 3200 256MB @ 2-2-2-4/2.77V EPoX 8RDA+ w/ Vantec Copper Iceberq v92 PCI Modem GF2MX400 64MB Vantec 6040 Copper HSF 56X CDROM Floppy Drive 60GB HDD Windowed case w/ 3 80mm fans 350W PSU 17" ViewSonic P70F PerfectFlat monitor This entire case/monitor/kb/mouse is black with silver accents. It is running fast and strong, and absolutely tears through anything I put it up against. Idle 46C/Load 55C. Not only is it ultra fast, but relatively quiet, as well (36 dB). This is a commission build for a 60 year old client who wanted a computer for office type work, occassional gaming for the grandkids, and something that would be not only easy on the eyes stylewise, but easy on the eyes on the monitor (hence the $250 professional grade monitor). I've bumped the CPU up to over 2250 Mhz at 1.85V, but she won't need that kind of speed, so I'm going for the longevity route. Before I sunk my claws into her, she was looking at $2000 Dells and Gateways ... and none of them would fly as fast as this beast. I'm getting a nice commission out of this project, as well, besides getting my jollies off on tooling with hardware. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied