New build today

Mr. Brightside · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:39

I sold my last desktop machine two and a half years ago to fund a month long expedition to Malawi in the summer of 2007 with Team Challange expeditions. It was great, really worth doing. Since then I've been using just a laptop.

Until yesterday. I somehow managed to persuade myself that having only 2gB of free space on the laptop was justification for building a desktop machine, rather than just upgrading the hard drive. So, yesterday afternoon I ordered this:

It should arrive at some point this morning. I may take some pictures of the build and post my thoughts on the build on here, depending on how much time I have.

The graphics card should be a bit of an improvement on the 8600M GT in my laptop, yes?

Edit - I didn't order that. I've uploaded the wrong screenshot somehow! I changed the case to an Antec 300, the hard disks to Samsung F3s and the mouse to an MX Revolution.

reiyushin · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:00

Mr. Brightside said:
The graphics card should be a bit of an improvement on the 8600M GT in my laptop, yes?

You may notice a slight difference.

Josh P · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:02

Very nice. I did a similar thing to to Mongolia a few years ago, totally worth doing. Looking forward to some pictures!

4Play · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:44

reiyushin said:
You may notice a slight difference.

Slight ? Your joking right, it will be a massive difference, all of the components and peripherals together mean a higher frame rate and higher resolutions. One thing though did you not buy a cpu cooler ? If not be careful when OC.

Memphis · 8 Dec 2009 at 11:01

4Play said:
Slight ? Your joking right, it will be a massive difference, all of the components and peripherals together mean a higher frame rate and higher resolutions.

Not quite mastered the art of understatement yet then huh?

Mr. Brightside · 8 Dec 2009 at 11:04

Thanks guys, I take it that the 5850 is *just a little* bit better then.

I just received two boxes with my name on.

Josh P · 8 Dec 2009 at 12:44

Have fun!

Mr. Brightside · 15 Dec 2009 at 00:01

OK sorry about the delay in posting pictures. Last week was the week after lectures finished, so I had a mixture of both lots of work to do and lots of fun to be had. It's turned out to quite a nice machine. Certainly an improvement on the last desktop I owned - it has 24 times as much memory!

Rather than include pictures in this thread I'll link to a blog post I made that has a gallery - click on the '[View with PicLens]' link on that page.

http://www.piggott.me.uk/blog/2009/12/14/i7-machine/