Duncan Tempelmeyer KE5RCC

I’ve been busy lately and have yet to post my new pc…till now!

Anyway as stated in an earlier post I got most of this for free. But let’s start with a listing of what this thing is rockin.

Parts:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard $84.99, and a heatsink for the processor power mosfets $15.00

CPU: AMD Phenom X4 965 Quad Core CPU $0.00

Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333 2GB $0.00

Hard drives: 3 Western Digital 1TB, 1 Western Digital 500GB, 1 external Western Digital 500GB (not pictured) $0.00 (already had, but spent about $350 before)

Optical: Generic DVD/CD Dual layer DVD burner $20.00

Card Reader: Rosewill card reader $14.00

Power supply: A-Power 850 Watt $50.00

Video Card: Nvidia BFG GeForce 285 $0.00

Case: Lancool PC-K60 Dragonlord $0.00

OS: Windows XP Professional $0.00 (Got off dead computer at office)

TOTAL: $184+taxes+shipping

So about $200 for a nice quad core computer…not bad!

All the free stuff that I didn’t already have came from Quakecon this year, and the case came from www.casemodblog.com Bill Owen runs that as well as www.mnpctech.com I use them for my u channel molding on my case mods. I really recommend checking him out, he has all kinds of neat stuff for modders, and the case mod blog is neat to check out and see whats up. Thanks to him for sending me this case that I won.

Anyway, pics!

Computers, Things Trevor Wishes He Had

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1000 points to first person to get it right!

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So I’m packing up stuff that I don’t need so I can be ready for the move…..well, the entertainment system is no more because it is packed up as well…so it is quite quiet here. So I hooked up 2 speakers to a simple amp…but that was not enough, so I hooked up the sub woofer as well…I guess the power lines aren’t great in this room, I’ve got it cranked up loud, and every time the bass hits the light dims…lol.

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Yeah, so with the move I have to yank all of the network cables out of the wall here, I’m leaving some of the cable tv, and two phone drops…that way there aren’t just a bunch of blank plates everywhere. Anyway…here are some pictures of all the networking, surround sound, security camera, and cable wiring.

I’m sure that it took several hours work to put in…and about an hour to take out…can’t wait to network the new house!

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…really bad. For the cost of a bartop arcade machine I’m getting help getting stuff down from the attic/going through said stuff/loading & unloading truck when it is time to move. I tried to call a few friends to no avail, so I called my co-worker Marty and he was cool with it. We’ve been working on getting stuff out of the attic, and needless to say….there is A LOT of it. Anyway…I don’t have too much invested in either arcade machine, I’m just lucky I got everything cheap/free. Where as to Marty it is worth his effort. He didn’t know what he was getting into until he stuck his head in the attic and saw how much stuff there was up there. I don’t know how it all got up there, I really don’t recall putting all that up there. Anyway I hope to throw away most of that stuff, I don’t think I need most of it, and I really don’t want to move it.

Anyway…a lot of the stuff is in the back yard right now, I need to take a pic, but will tomorrow.

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So my landlord decided that he is going to sell my house that I’m living in. This is a problem as I am living in it. Anyway I went to the bank and they approved me for a loan so that I can buy a house. I’m not going to buy my current house because if I buy something, I would like to buy something bigger. Anyway, I have since found a house and am trying to buy it. It’s a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 1 car garage, storage shed, dining room, kitchen. I’m quite excited to say the least. Anyway, pics…

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