Himeko wa Chikane ga suki desu yo
My computer revitilization continues to bear fruit with another child who is being born. Himeko should come to life by the middle of this month and she shall be my small little one to bring around to visit people.
She's going to be a little cube of wuv that's going to dual boot and be perfect for bringing around to places.
Planned Specs:
Antec Aria 300Watt Cube - The only other good choice I found was the chemning cube, but this is a lot easier to find. It's not so good on the airflow side, but this certainly won't be a high power system anyways. I decided that Shuttles were too pricey and too limiting in many ways to be a good choice for me currently. Not to mention the 8 card reader in the front is a nice perk.
Sempron 2400+ (Oced to 2ghz) - I chose this over anything better just because I plan to oc to 2ghz anyways by upping the FSB to a straight 200X2 since it's a 166x2 processor normally. That should put me near a standard Athlon XP 2800 since that only runs on a 333mhz bus.
MSI Nforce2 IGP Micro-Atx - A good value Nforce2 board with full dual channel features and in case I want to be without a video card, Geforce4MX integrated awaits! XD
Kingston 512MB PC3200 - Will be paired up with another stick of ram in the future for dual channel wuv.
NEC ND-3500A 16x DVD+-RW - I got the ND-3520A for Ichigo and am moving this over to Himeko.
Geforce FX5600(carried over from Hibari) - My friend's old card which has an absurb 256MB of ram for a mid-range older card.
120/80GB HD(carried over)
Realtek ALC655 - Sadly recent Nforce2's don't have Soundstorm in the southbridge anymore, but at least it has a decent 5.1 audio chip.
802.11g Card - Still haven't determined which card yet.
I wasn't expecting to do this so soon, but a couple complications with my old system made me decide better to do this now rather than waiting forever for a Socket 754 solution, the 8 month wait for Venice was ridiculous enough...
Ichigo Status Update:
Everything is running wonderfully and perfectly stable. A few concerns include that the original 802.11g card has a weak signal(which will be replaced soon). Also the northbridge fan spins at a constant 7200rpm and needs to be replaced by a much quieter 40mm fan. If anyone knows a really nice, reliable, low noise 40mm that spins at 4500rpm or less with a 3pin mobo connector(let me know!) And the ram is really lacking in overclocking headroom and I think that will need to be replaced in the future. In the meanwhile my video card is oced a bit to 375/590 and my system is running at 205fsb.
She's going to be a little cube of wuv that's going to dual boot and be perfect for bringing around to places.
Planned Specs:
Antec Aria 300Watt Cube - The only other good choice I found was the chemning cube, but this is a lot easier to find. It's not so good on the airflow side, but this certainly won't be a high power system anyways. I decided that Shuttles were too pricey and too limiting in many ways to be a good choice for me currently. Not to mention the 8 card reader in the front is a nice perk.
Sempron 2400+ (Oced to 2ghz) - I chose this over anything better just because I plan to oc to 2ghz anyways by upping the FSB to a straight 200X2 since it's a 166x2 processor normally. That should put me near a standard Athlon XP 2800 since that only runs on a 333mhz bus.
MSI Nforce2 IGP Micro-Atx - A good value Nforce2 board with full dual channel features and in case I want to be without a video card, Geforce4MX integrated awaits! XD
Kingston 512MB PC3200 - Will be paired up with another stick of ram in the future for dual channel wuv.
NEC ND-3500A 16x DVD+-RW - I got the ND-3520A for Ichigo and am moving this over to Himeko.
Geforce FX5600(carried over from Hibari) - My friend's old card which has an absurb 256MB of ram for a mid-range older card.
120/80GB HD(carried over)
Realtek ALC655 - Sadly recent Nforce2's don't have Soundstorm in the southbridge anymore, but at least it has a decent 5.1 audio chip.
802.11g Card - Still haven't determined which card yet.
I wasn't expecting to do this so soon, but a couple complications with my old system made me decide better to do this now rather than waiting forever for a Socket 754 solution, the 8 month wait for Venice was ridiculous enough...
Ichigo Status Update:
Everything is running wonderfully and perfectly stable. A few concerns include that the original 802.11g card has a weak signal(which will be replaced soon). Also the northbridge fan spins at a constant 7200rpm and needs to be replaced by a much quieter 40mm fan. If anyone knows a really nice, reliable, low noise 40mm that spins at 4500rpm or less with a 3pin mobo connector(let me know!) And the ram is really lacking in overclocking headroom and I think that will need to be replaced in the future. In the meanwhile my video card is oced a bit to 375/590 and my system is running at 205fsb.