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by Fussbett 01/26/2006, 3:36am PST |
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Putting it together was a easy! My easiest build ever, and I wonder why I put it off for so long. Building computers used to be really gay, that's why, and I've even wrecked a motherboard with a screwdriver trying to apply the jaws-of-life-like heatsink band. No more, as the AMD engineers decided to affix a tiny plastic lever to the band, making it screwdriverless. SATA took care of the rest of my technical problems, and I bought a nice (for me at least) Anatech case, which made mounting the drives a breeze. And what a breeze, from the giant fan out the back of this case. I might crawl past the big rotating blades from time to time and pretend I'm in the air duct of a video game. In fact, the case is so perforated with fan holes, I forsee future cases showcaseing amazing "open concept designs" for maximum cooling, which of course means no sides at all. These future cases will especially help Horrible Blob, who lives on the Tropic of Crapricorn.
PROS:
- Alt-tabbing from a debilitation game instantly into some other crushing program with out effort or time elapsing fills me with a happiness I didn't expect. I'm going to start running some sort of cancer-curing number cruncher in the background of my games at all times to maximum the usefullness.
- Quiet! There was a high pitched tone when the video card is working on some 3D, which I noticed when the computer was on top of the desk. Solution: put the computer under the desk! I can't tell if it's on or not when I walk into the room.
- Performance! Despite a lower end video card, I'm setting games to very high settings and as a result I've got nice things to say about all games. "Looks great" is my common video game review right now. Tainted.
CONS:
- Pariah doesn't support dualcore chips at all. It just crashes. Solution: Fuck Pariah! I ran it with a commandline one-cpu-affinity program so it would boot, and discovered that the game based on the UT2003 engine looks just like UT2003, combined with some boring Halo gameplay. Negative!
- I'm playing games constantly. I'm in a Cable-brother-like gaming coma. I was supposed to go to a horrible web job I have on Tuesday and I just forgot to go. That's a a turning point in my life, probably. Solution: finish this exciting gaming backlog, get back to casual, cynical play.
- Blue LED. Thanks to the PS2 we've all got to have blue LEDs now, also trying to get them as bright as possible like so much underbelly of a ride that has just been pimped. It lights up my dark room. SOLUTION: Post-It note covering the LED. More elegant solution possible, but I'm pretty lazy. Plus, I can write notes on the Post-It. "Don't forget to bring a sword to dungeon 3", etc
So anyway, a rousing success. I dropped my rig down from the nomenclature of Motherhead 9000 since I figure it's slightly below his desired system which would feature a better video card. I already have the new video card bug, but I'm trying to fight it. |
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REVIEW: The Motherhead 8800 by Fussbett 01/26/2006, 3:36am PST 
Re: REVIEW: The Motherhead 8800 by Rafiki 01/26/2006, 1:14pm PST
Cases by Fussbett 01/26/2006, 2:25pm PST
Re: Cases by Rafiki 01/26/2006, 2:37pm PST
Re: REVIEW: The Motherhead 8800 by Entropy Stew 01/26/2006, 2:05pm PST
From the corner of my eye: A single perfect tear. NT by Motherhead 01/27/2006, 1:10pm PST
The Motherhead 8800 lasted nearly 3 years. by Fussbett 12/16/2008, 11:52am PST
Here's what I bought awhile ago. by Worm 12/16/2008, 12:12pm PST
No, 8800 was just a cool number. I'm all about midrange. NT by Fussbett 12/16/2008, 12:51pm PST
Get a Core2. by Rafiki 12/16/2008, 5:14pm PST
He's on a 3 year upgrade cycle by Entropy Stew 12/16/2008, 5:34pm PST
Apparently Rafiki is the one who remembered that I'm on a budget here >:( NT by Fussbett 12/18/2008, 1:26am PST
I didn't tell you to buy the $1000 one! by Entropy Stew 12/18/2008, 8:10am PST
Just buy a 80 dollar processor and a big ass heatsink. NT by Worm 12/18/2008, 8:28am PST
What is your budget? by McMoo 12/19/2008, 2:29pm PST
My budget turned out to be $500. 775mobo + 8400 CPU + 4 gigs Fatal1ty RAM NT by Fussbett 12/19/2008, 2:31pm PST
I have one suggestion that I truly believe fits everyone: Get a Mac. by Mike Wendland 12/18/2008, 9:28am PST
Macs even render the OMM web page in Postal 2 better, if they ran Postal 2 by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/19/2008, 3:19pm PST
Here is a mac anecdote from yesterday. by Fullofkittens 12/19/2008, 3:23pm PST
That IS gay. :( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/19/2008, 4:06pm PST
OS X comes with pico, a text editor NT by Ray of Light 12/19/2008, 6:06pm PST
And Vim, the editor of champions. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/19/2008, 6:57pm PST
You're an Emacs man then? NT by yuk-yuk 12/19/2008, 7:10pm PST
Yeah, Emacs is totally for losers NT by Jamie Fucking Zawinski 12/19/2008, 10:32pm PST
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