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bdquick Admin
Posts : 583 Join date : 2010-02-22 Age : 44 Location : Central Iowa
| Subject: New Machine Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:04 pm | |
| Well I finally got my new machine assembled and running. Its taken awhile, as I've been under the weather for a week. So far I've just installed Win 7, so that I could do my taxes. Not that I want to do them, but I can always use my money back. I want to Opensuse installed and see if I have trouble with UEFI.
So far the machine seems very snappy and its quiet. I was a bit worried about noise because there are several case fans. Will try to post so pictures soon. Tomorrow I have to put it to work melting away the blizzard welan is sending me. | |
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bozo Admin
Posts : 402 Join date : 2010-02-23 Location : Way out in the sticks in the Gold Country of California
| Subject: Re: New Machine Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:01 pm | |
| Sorry to hear you've been under the weather. Especially the weather you've been having. But congratulations on the new machine. I've yet to install the motherboard/CPU.memory/cooler that my son gave me a year ago. But I did get Suse 12 installed on the laptop. Haven't gotten the nVidia driver installed yet. Having problems with the wifi. I think I'll go with an ethernet cable for now just to get the driver downloaded and installed. Good luck melting off the results of that blizzard. welan's a toad. (Even sent me 4" of snow day before yesterday. But it's melting off fast with no help from me. | |
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bdquick Admin
Posts : 583 Join date : 2010-02-22 Age : 44 Location : Central Iowa
| Subject: Re: New Machine Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:24 pm | |
| Sorry to hear you got snow. Luckily we didn't get quite as much as predicted. I had about 5 inches instead of the 8-10 that was predicted. | |
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welan Admin
Posts : 248 Join date : 2010-02-23 Age : 60 Location : snow drift in minnesota
| Subject: Re: New Machine Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:16 am | |
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bdquick Admin
Posts : 583 Join date : 2010-02-22 Age : 44 Location : Central Iowa
| Subject: Re: New Machine Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:15 pm | |
| - welan wrote:
- drats!
Well you didn't miss today with predicted dusting that ended up being 6 to 8 inches of heavy wet snow. | |
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Laz Gecko
Posts : 201 Join date : 2012-06-13 Location : Delta BC
| Subject: Re: New Machine Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:56 pm | |
| - bdquick wrote:
- Well you didn't miss today with predicted dusting
Lol. You must have a Canada-nadian weatherman! | |
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bdquick Admin
Posts : 583 Join date : 2010-02-22 Age : 44 Location : Central Iowa
| Subject: Re: New Machine Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:07 pm | |
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welan Admin
Posts : 248 Join date : 2010-02-23 Age : 60 Location : snow drift in minnesota
| Subject: Re: New Machine Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:08 pm | |
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bozo Admin
Posts : 402 Join date : 2010-02-23 Location : Way out in the sticks in the Gold Country of California
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Laz Gecko
Posts : 201 Join date : 2012-06-13 Location : Delta BC
| Subject: Re: New Machine Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:59 am | |
| Looks great. How about letting us in on the specs? | |
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bdquick Admin
Posts : 583 Join date : 2010-02-22 Age : 44 Location : Central Iowa
| Subject: Re: New Machine Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:29 pm | |
| - Laz wrote:
- Looks great. How about letting us in on the specs?
I did forget to mention those didn't I. Case is CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced (means it came with USB 3.0 ports) AMD FX 8350 4.0 GHZ, 8 cores Motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX 2.0 16 GB of RAM 2 500GB WD 10k rpm velicoraptor hard drives Video card is NVIDIA GTX 650. Driving dual ASUS 23 inch LED monitors. I also included a bluray reader, not writer. Its just a standard DVD burner. Went with an Antec 650 watt power supply. I think that covers everything. I went a bit overkill, but I'm hoping it lasts for several years. | |
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Laz Gecko
Posts : 201 Join date : 2012-06-13 Location : Delta BC
| Subject: Re: New Machine Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:36 pm | |
| I got to tell you I'm envious. Sounds like a great machine. | |
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