The death of a true machine blog - Henley

Just like in the end of terminator where the robot slowly sinks into the liquid metal, my current rig is slowly dying. Yes its true the very same pc that has survived through Uni, a bad break up, a death in the family and countless new apartments and lan games is dying away. Its a sad sad day for myself and all those effected by its overall leetness (I cant really think of anyone). But in it's place will be a better, more awesome pc and right now I will go through and explain why I'm picking the parts that will make up Ripper number 2 (yeah yeah I called it Ripper so what). Note that these are the parts I feel comfortable talking about without sounding like I know nothing. I'm not a hardware junkie, to me if something works for what I need it to be then I'm all for it.

Alrighty first just have a look at that thing right there, just look... Does it not look like it will freakin fly away if its not bolted down once it recieves power? Yeah I know crazy right? Anyways this beast is not the best in the pack but there is only 3 cards right now that can topple this thing. And the proof is in the benchmark. The reason I choose this card say over the GeForce GTX 260 was because of the price, I could pay an extra $150 for 6 extra FPS, and it could be noiser. So I think that alone justifies my purchase.

With my focus mostly on gaming and rendering both video and images I would be crazy not to get a Quad Core. That means 4 little beasts doing my bidding for everything my pc does. Which means faster everything. Granted that most PC games don't take advantage of the amazing stuff this thing can do (keeping to 2 processors only instead of 4) but with only a slight drop in FPS for gaming means a massive increase for production of renders. And I'm all for that!

This case may not look awesome, but the functionality outweighs the looks and to me that is all that matters. One problem I'm faced with all the time is hard drives. Either I'm running out of virtual space or I don't have any room to install any more, so I'm forced down the external road. But with this case swapping HDD's is easy and tooless. Which is great!

And now the full spec's for all those who care:

• Intel CORE 2 Q6600/2.4Ghz/2x4MB/1066FSB/LGA775
• Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L P45+ICH10 DDR2 1200 1600MHz PCI-E 2.0 SATAII GLAN 8Ch Audio ATX Ultra Durable
• G.Skill DDR2 4G(2x2G)PC6400 800Mhz(F2-6400CL4D-4GBHK)
• Western Digital 750G SATAII 7200 rpm HDD Green Power(WD7500AACS)
• MSI ATI Radeon R4850 OC 512M DDR3 HDMI D-DVI-I HDTV
• LG GGC-H20L Blue Ray Combo OEM
• Coolermaster RC-690-KWN1 690 Case Black with Side Window(NO PSU)
• Corsair HX-620 ATX Power Supply 120mm fan Dual PCI-E Graphics Card Connector 8 SATA Connectors

All in all the whole thing will cost just under $1500 AUD which is not bad. After I receive the pc, I'll be running some benchmarks to see how great (or not so great) my latest venture will run.