October 28, 2004
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Beware, this following entry is stacked and packed with computer geek erudition. You have been warned.
Over the past couple days I’ve mutated myself into a lifeless zombie by force feeding online component reviews into my brain. Regardless of what I think is nice or not, what I can or cannot afford, I keep changing my mind back and forth on what guts I want to cram into my next PC. Firstly, I almost definately want to get a SFF (Small Form Factor) toaster-sized chassis. Possibly a Antec Aria, which handles up to 9.6″ * 9.6″ micro-mobos in contrast to Shuttle’s restrictive (in the pantsu) built-in-motherboards. It’s a bit thicker, comes with a non-standard sized 300W PSU, and with mATX onboard that means if I go this direction I can dump extra guts into this toaster. The only downside is that Aria is known to have a few heat issues, ripping a few holes and slamming a 80mm Tt smart-fan shouldn’t be a problem, other than I don’t have a dremel. But still, ack… Shuttles are so pretty and have a nice built in quad-heatpipe setup! Not to mention a tad bit expensive and I don’t like Phoenix AwardBIOS.
-Antec Aria [$125] and Asus P4P800-VM [$122] ($247 Total)
-Shuttle XPC SB65G2 Barebones ($355)
Big difference, no? That’s $108 which could be splurged on another $105 chip of Kingston 512MB Value DDR RAM. (Dual channel, yay!!)
Comments (10)
that bicycle break-like lever is the crossbow trigger.. i don’t think they can add the nade onto the m4 since the bottom railing is taken by the trigger.. unless they can mount the trigger beneath the grenade barrel
my god… when did you turn into such a computer upgrading freak… like total opposite of me… i leave that phase and you enter it… now all i want is to save enough money to get my 1994 Chevy Camaro Z28 Convertible… ’94 version owns the rest…
still stickin’ w/ the matx eh?
shuttle… cuz there’s a floppy..?
lol.. kinda like how aria looks…
um.. not superstore.. london drugs..
shut da fuck up bitch.. dun piss me off when i’m in bad mood
my mp3 player owns.. still working…. i presume.. i dun have it.. lent to someone.. i’ll use it future as flash drive instead.. since the sony cant use as drive… but you can store 170 songs on 256mb.. altrac3 rox.. 70hrs of battery life 11hrs of music
what normal ppl hear: blab blab blab, im stuck at home… blah blah blah i care about the size of stuff.. blah blah blah i need a life… blah blah blah angela needs more cookies.
haha lo por needs more cookies XD haha programming ish not fun! haha only if ur good @ it like matt O_O
would the shoe spray thing work? lol
hahah
i was too lazee to correct everything
cause they dont have auto correct like word does lol