Upgrade Time

Posted in IT by Will on September 14, 2006.

Updated 2006-09-16:
Changed video cards from the 1900GT to 1600Pro, it’s about $200 cheaper, and available now, instead of a 1-ish week delay.
Updated: 2006-09-15
OK, so we’re going out to get a new TV tonight — one of those 32″ LCD panels sounds good.
We got an LG 32LC2D 32″ LCD Panel. Very nice :) Also, ordered the bits for the new PC, and a new motherboard and videocard for the HTPC box.

Since we’re getting that… and I thought I should upgrade my home PC again (it’s been 18months, about the usual for me).

My current PC will become a Windows Media Centre box…

So, here’s my PC at the moment:

Kumi

  • Athlon 64 3500+ (Single Core)
  • Abit AV8-3rd Eye
  • 2GB RAM (2x 1GB)
  • 200GB SATA (Boot)
  • 2x 160GB ATA/160 (RAID-Stripe)
  • (ext) 320GB SATA (USB2)
  • ATI Radeon 9600 XT
  • Dell 2405 FPW - 24″ LCD Panel
  • 1x DNTV Live! Pro
  • Lian Li 1000B Case
  • Lite-on 52x CDRW
  • Lite-on 8x DVDRW

New PC Setup (final):

Shiika

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (Conroe)
  • Abit AB9-Pro
  • 2GB RAM (2x 1GB)
  • 1x 320GB (SATA II)
  • (ext) 320GB (USB2)
  • 1x DNTV Live! Pro
  • ATI Radeon 1600Pro
  • Lite-On 16x DVDRW
  • Lite-On 52X CDRW
  • Lian Li 1000B+ Case
  • Dell 2405FPW - 24″ LCD Panel
  • (Running Windows Vista-32bit Ultimate - RC1+)

Kumi

  • Athlon 64 3500+ (Single Core)
  • Abit AV8-3rd Eye
  • Foxconn Foxconn NF4K8AC-RS (PCI-e Motherboard)
  • 2GB RAM (2x 1GB)
  • 200GB SATA (Boot)
  • 2x 160GB ATA/160 (RAID-Stripe)
  • (ext) 320GB SATA (USB2)
  • ATI Radeon 9600 XT
  • GeCube Radeon X1300 256MB HDMI PCI-E x16 (Audio over HDMI capable)
  • Dell 2405 FPW - 24″ LCD Panel
  • 1x DNTV Live! Pro
  • DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-Express
  • Lian Li 1000B Case
  • Lite-on 52x CDRW
  • Lite-on 8x DVDRW
  • Media Centre IR Remote, + IR Sender, IR Keyboard, etc.
  • 802.11G PCI Card
  • (Running Windows Media Centre 2005, initially - Vista-32bit Ultimate when it releases)

So, the new home network will look something like this: