New 'Puter

Got a new tower, spent most of yesterday setting up. Now, I know that the few "nerds" out there would laugh at my taking most of a day to set up, but it was a bit more complicated then just taking it out of the box and plugging everything in.

First off, it's a Dell Dimension 9150, the processor is a 3.0 Pentium 4 dual core, with a 800mhz FSB and a 2MB L2 cache (945P chipset). I've got 2 Gig DDR2-667MHz SDRAM, 160 GB HD, ATI Radeon X600 HyperMemory video in a PCIE configuration, onboard 7.1 Surround Sound, and a truly tool-less case. It leaves me plenty of room for expansion; 2GB more of RAM, bigger video card, 500GB HD, 3.4 Pentium 4 processor.

The part that took longer was that I ordered this fairly "bare bones", so I had to install two Plextor burners, a CDR Premium, and a DVDR PX-708A, an additional 2.0 USB card (the tower only has 7 USB ports and I require more! :) I'm thinking of dropping in the Creative Labs Audigy 2 Platinum Pro sound card I have, because you can disable the onboard audio in BIOS, which is a really neat trick. Gotta admit though, the 7.1 sounds pretty sweet for onboard audio.

After that, I had to spend the afternoon installing the many device drivers for my three printers, CD tower, and flat-bed scanner. I started to install and restore the data to the mulitude of apps I use, but ran out of time, guess that's next on the agenda.

Q'uo!