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First post with my new computer which has been dubbed THE BORG. My nephew built this sucker for me.
My New Computer: The Borg
22 Monday Mar 2010
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22 Monday Mar 2010
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First post with my new computer which has been dubbed THE BORG. My nephew built this sucker for me.
From scratch or from components?
He ordered the parts and put them together.
That’s scary looking, and the name on the side of the case is scary too. I have screwed together a few PCs back when, but they are too complicated and there are too many cards, drives, in-out puts etc. for me to mess with it any more. These days I don’t want to even think about opening the case, which in truth my iMac doesn’t have, exactly, the whole shebang being at the base of the monitor.
The important thing: is it fast? Is it reliable? I suppose you are using stock BIOS, Intel dual core ships and Windows OS, so it should do as ell or better than the previous computer. By the way, why the new set-up?
The old computer was about six years old, way out of date. It was giving me all sorts of problems, locking up for minutes at times, slow downloading, etc. This one is a little closer to up-to-date. My nephew ordered the parts and, like you, most of it is way beyond me these days. He assures me it has a butt load of memory and is capable of burning DVDs or CDs, though that’s not something I have a lot of interest in at the moment.
He is envious of the case I selected, though. Both sides are hinged and open for easy access to the innards.
This computer isn’t intel based. It has a quad-core Phenom II AMD processor running at 3ghz, 8gigs of DDR2 at 800mhz with a 5-5-5-15 latency, 1 terabyte SATA hard drive, SATA DVR, and a Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E with 1gig of video memory
Randy – burning DVDs is a pretty good way to back up seldom used files and to archive important stuff. I’m assuming you have a back-up plan in place. If not, it’s your First Order of Business.
What’s scary is that I pretty much understood that. Those are specs for one fast machine, especially the way it shares processing. 8 gigs is a lot of RAM, and a terabyte is a good sized box! (mine is only .75TB but I have a 2 TB external always-on back up drive. How is that big HD partitioned?
It is mostly set up as one bug partition, with small exception of a hidden partition with all of the windows 7 cab files. Makes doing repairs a little quicker
Makes sense. In the past I’ve put utility programs in a separate partition, probably 5 gigs or so, for the same reason and for version control when necessary. By the way, Tracy, nice meeting you!