01 November 2010

Da Goods

This aged box, circa 2008, upgraded early 2010, is running:

CoolerMaster HAF932
Silverstone 1200W ridiculous amounts of power supply
EVGA nVidia nForce 680i SLI
Zalman 110mm CPU Cooler
Intel Q6600 2.4GHz
4G OCZ Reaper X HPC DDR2, recognized @ 2560MB
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
DirectX 10.0
Integrated HD Sound
Win Vista/7 Ultimate
Win XP SP3
Win 98 (!!)
Cyber Acoustics 2.1 sound sys
ViewSonic 22" 1680 x 1050 (with silly integrated webcam!)
Logitech VX Nano wireless mouse
Ideazon Reaper maming mouse
Ideazon Merc Stealth gaming keyboard
Dell keyboard of awesome, L100
Wacom Bamboo Fun, first gen, black
Rosewill multi-card reader and floppy
A sadly unused Zalman MFC2, due to PCI slots being eaten by ginormous GeForce beasts

Downsides:
- No overclocking
- Two optical drives, no BluRay
- Oldschool DDR2!

Upgrades:
Wavering between a downsized mini-monster, in perhaps an Antec Skeleton, or sticking with the monstrous theme and upgrading the mobo to an Asus board for an AMD chipset, and an ATI C.O.U.S.; reinstalling my soundcard, or springing for a Fatal1ty; upgrading the ol' wired gaming mouse; joystick and pedal setup; wheel, pedal + clutch and stick setup; new monitor with higher native resolution and itty bitty response time, and no ghosting; etcetera.