Eat, drink, and be merry, for all is wonderfully well!
As some of you know, I have been having trouble with my computer system. It's an old gateway with 800 megahertz (or megahurts), and 256 megs of RAM. I think we picked it up in 1999.
At first it was just minor trouble, like the fact that it was far too old to be making videos with. I could deal with that though, since David Heustis had a relatively fast computer and he was better at editing anyway. After moving to Texas though, I have know David Heustis, so I now need a new computer for working with videos. No problem there though, I'll just work on writing and music in the meantime.
Then the real trouble began. It started half saving files, thus corrupting data. What this causes, is hours of work to be lost, and hundreds of irreplacable picture files to be ruined, not to mention the twelve dollars worth of downloaded Newsboys songs to be sent to cyber heaven.
This has been going on for about a month now, and I didn't want to lose any more files. Unfortunately, I didn't quite have enough money to buy an all new system. I looked at ways to do it differently, but I couldn't doing it without cutting corners that would cost me in the long run.
Recently though, I have acquired the extra funding (that's a fancy way of saying I got some birthday money) for the new machine. I've spent about a year researching different components, technologies, and retailers for the needed parts, so I knew exactly what I needed. Today, I put the items in a cart, and checked out.
About thirty minutes later, an email arrived saying that the credit card address was not usable because the bank did not have the shipping address on file, and on and on and on about nonsense.
We called the company, and we're working it out now. If all goes well, I'll have the components next Monday, and I'll assemble it.
The spec's are as follows:
1 Gig of DDR400, PC-3200, Dual Channel RAM,
3.0E Gigahertz Prescott Core Pentium 4 processor with 800 megahertz FSB and 1 meg L2 cache,
ThermalTake 500 Watt Power-Supply,
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream Tower ATX-form Case,
Logitech Wireless MX Keyboard/Mouse Duo, (The mouse has 10 programmable buttons),
Func Mousepad,
Samsung 120 Gig 7200 RPM Serial ATA harddrive with 8 Megabyte Buffer Cache,
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2,
Arctic Silver Thermal Paste,
Zalman Pure Copper CPU Cooling Fan,
And a temporary cheapo graphics card.
The really cool part about this system is that it's HyperThreading. Technical details are required to describe the process, but basically it's like having dual processors.
IN other news, I've been busy as can be, and I must go to bed now, for we are getting up at six in the morning tomorrow.
So, 'til next time, Audio's At Me Goes!
At first it was just minor trouble, like the fact that it was far too old to be making videos with. I could deal with that though, since David Heustis had a relatively fast computer and he was better at editing anyway. After moving to Texas though, I have know David Heustis, so I now need a new computer for working with videos. No problem there though, I'll just work on writing and music in the meantime.
Then the real trouble began. It started half saving files, thus corrupting data. What this causes, is hours of work to be lost, and hundreds of irreplacable picture files to be ruined, not to mention the twelve dollars worth of downloaded Newsboys songs to be sent to cyber heaven.
This has been going on for about a month now, and I didn't want to lose any more files. Unfortunately, I didn't quite have enough money to buy an all new system. I looked at ways to do it differently, but I couldn't doing it without cutting corners that would cost me in the long run.
Recently though, I have acquired the extra funding (that's a fancy way of saying I got some birthday money) for the new machine. I've spent about a year researching different components, technologies, and retailers for the needed parts, so I knew exactly what I needed. Today, I put the items in a cart, and checked out.
About thirty minutes later, an email arrived saying that the credit card address was not usable because the bank did not have the shipping address on file, and on and on and on about nonsense.
We called the company, and we're working it out now. If all goes well, I'll have the components next Monday, and I'll assemble it.
The spec's are as follows:
1 Gig of DDR400, PC-3200, Dual Channel RAM,
3.0E Gigahertz Prescott Core Pentium 4 processor with 800 megahertz FSB and 1 meg L2 cache,
ThermalTake 500 Watt Power-Supply,
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream Tower ATX-form Case,
Logitech Wireless MX Keyboard/Mouse Duo, (The mouse has 10 programmable buttons),
Func Mousepad,
Samsung 120 Gig 7200 RPM Serial ATA harddrive with 8 Megabyte Buffer Cache,
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2,
Arctic Silver Thermal Paste,
Zalman Pure Copper CPU Cooling Fan,
And a temporary cheapo graphics card.
The really cool part about this system is that it's HyperThreading. Technical details are required to describe the process, but basically it's like having dual processors.
IN other news, I've been busy as can be, and I must go to bed now, for we are getting up at six in the morning tomorrow.
So, 'til next time, Audio's At Me Goes!
~~Techier Texan~~
posted at
12:02 AM
