when using it. For example, when starting your browser to write your blog, you wait ten seconds for the program to start. Then you wait another ten seconds and so on. I wondered during this period when I am wasting my life staring at an LCD - How many dollars does Bill Gates make each minute I sit and stare. The Zen-like answer came. Why not make Bill even more rich and upgrade to Windows 7? Lisa said OK. That was all I needed. However to handle all the bloat and mistakes of Gate's latest creation, I decided this time we would buy the top-end hardware to handle it. Top-end PC's run well over two grand. Too much. So we decided we would build our own computer.
Welcome to "Our First Build":
1) PROCESSOR: core i7 (950) -Quad Core (the latest series from intel but not the extreme)
2)MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Rampage Gene III (the best micro ATX at this time)
3)GRAPHICS: ASUS ATI HD 5770 (GDDR5! oooh)
4) STORAGE: Yeah, it's a solid state drive (too expensive for much though -128GB) Crucial
5)MEMORY: A-Data 6GB (3x2GB) for the triple mem of i7. Fastest mem around 1600
6)POWER: Rosewill Supply, 500W (not too much not too little - LED's are cool)
7) OS: Windows 7, uses the advanced multiple cores and hyperthreading - 64 bit.
8)And a case to put it all in.
This project is an experiment. If we get the latest technology will it make a huge difference in our computing lives? Can we construct a system that is exactly what we want and costs significantly less than one can buy? The parts above cost about 60% of the lowest priced online system I could find with the essentially the same components. We will update you when everything is working. The cost is about three times what I have paid for the budget PC's in the past. However if the performance scales as the specs might lead one to believe then the ratio of performance to dollar should be better (much).
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