New baby pictures......

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December 13th, 2004, 07:30 PM
KINGofBLEH

New baby pictures......

Got my new system up and running this weekend (with an assist from MobilePCphysician and TripleRLtd....thanks).

Here are the photos....

http://www.kingofbleh.com/DCP_0399_small.jpg

Here she is just before her first boot up. Don’t make fun of my wiring job, I cleaned it up later. Specs:

Pentium 4 @ 3.0Ghz CPU
Nvidia GeForce 256MB on PCI Express 16x graphics adapter
ATI TV Wonder VE video capture card
Maxtor 250GB SATA HDD
Maxtor 80GB IDE HDD
Lite-on 8x DVD-RW
2GB PNY PC3200 DDR @ 400Mhz
ASUS P5GD1 Mobo

http://www.kingofbleh.com/DCP_0403_small.jpg

Here she is w/ Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse

http://www.kingofbleh.com/DCP_0412_small.jpg

Fully assembled and ready for install.

http://www.kingofbleh.com/DCP_0413_small.jpg

Installed in the entertainment center w/ keyboard and mouse. Gives new meaning to the term universal remote.

And yes, that is my “legacy” DVD player to the right. That is soooooo last week. </sarcasm>

http://www.kingofbleh.com/DCP_0414_small.jpg

The rest of the rack. Sorry no 60” LCD HDTV. (Although my video capture card is HDTV-ready).
December 13th, 2004, 07:36 PM
TripleRLtd

Sweet KB. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif I can even see the power cable you forgot about. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
What kind of case and PSU?
December 13th, 2004, 07:40 PM
KINGofBLEH

Quote:

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Sweet KB. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif I can even see the power cable you forgot about. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
What kind of case and PSU?

Thanks for reminding me. I still need to repair those holes in my wall created by my head. :mad:

Antec case w/ 420W PSU.
December 13th, 2004, 07:48 PM
TripleRLtd

Good choice. If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to know how much you paid for everything. PM if you don't want to post it.
December 13th, 2004, 08:31 PM
KINGofBLEH

Quote:

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Good choice. If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to know how much you paid for everything. PM if you don't want to post it.

The parts for the machine came in just shy of $1,000. I pulled the DVD-RW and capture card from another system I own.

Retail on a system like this would run well over $2k, so I figure I did pretty good.
December 13th, 2004, 08:32 PM
3fingersalute

Quote:

Originally Posted by KINGofBLEH

The parts for the machine came in just shy of $1,000. I pulled the DVD-RW and capture card from another system I own.

Retail on a system like this would run well over $2k, so I figure I did pretty good.

don't sound too bad
December 13th, 2004, 08:44 PM
TripleRLtd

Cool. Ya see, you built yourself a mercedes instead of buying a yugo from Comcrap with the same CPU spec.
See this debate:
http://forums.windrivers.com/announcement.php?f=44
December 13th, 2004, 08:52 PM
KINGofBLEH

Quote:

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Cool. Ya see, you built yourself a mercedes instead of buying a yugo from Comcrap with the same CPU spec.
See this debate:
http://forums.windrivers.com/announcement.php?f=44

As tempting as it may sound, I don't think it would be wise to debate with Richard1 right now. :thumbs: ;)

Actually this is my 4th system I have built for myself. I have also built countless systems for other people. I used to do a lot of side-work in my pre-corporate days. Got out of the biz because overhead was getting to $high$.

Custom built is definitely the way to go.
December 13th, 2004, 08:55 PM
KINGofBLEH

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

don't sound too bad

I could have saved a few $ if I had more time and scoped out the parts online. But I wanted to get this out of the way so I can focus on Christmas shopping. Plus the money was just burning a hole in my pocket!!!!

:flames:
December 13th, 2004, 09:10 PM
TripleRLtd

Quote:

Originally Posted by KINGofBLEH

As tempting as it may sound, I don't think it would be wise to debate with Richard1 right now. :thumbs: ;)

https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
Damn, that announcement seems to be everywhere. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
This be the one:https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=67262
December 14th, 2004, 02:23 AM
NooNoo

I wonder if the proximity of the speaker to the pc case is going to cause issues? But otherwise, nicely done.
December 14th, 2004, 07:16 AM
TechZ

Nice system KoB!
December 14th, 2004, 07:43 AM
iceman

Quote:

Originally Posted by NooNoo

I wonder if the proximity of the speaker to the pc case is going to cause issues? But otherwise, nicely done.

Yes it will! Have had 2 customers do the same thing and the hard drive kept coming up with errors. After a format and relocation the errors were gone.
December 14th, 2004, 08:16 AM
3fingersalute

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Yes it will! Have had 2 customers do the same thing and the hard drive kept coming up with errors. After a format and relocation the errors were gone.

Hmmm, looks like its time to move the tower inside the entertainment system somewhere.
December 14th, 2004, 09:08 AM
confus-ed

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

Hmmm, looks like its time to move the tower inside the entertainment system somewhere.

Naaah .. (depends on how good the shielding is inside those speaker cases) but methinks a tinfoil hat will sort that out {or variation thereof} if thats the only 'nice' place to put it .. so here's one for Trip as he seems obsessed with certain matters at the moment :D
http://www.jackwilken.com/images/foilhat102001b.jpg
(with advance apologies to whoever the hells kid, I just plastered over this site to make 'teh baby' link ;))
December 14th, 2004, 10:25 AM
Stalemate

Sweet looking system, KoB. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif

What HSF are you using?