UPDATE! IT'S OFFICIAL! HERE'S WHAT HAS BEEN PURCHASED AND WILL BE REPLACING ME SOON!
Area-51 EXTREME system from AlienWare.Com
- Case: Alienware Full-Size Tower
- Case Color: Cyborg Green
- Power: 650watt Triple Fan Control Aluminum
- Processor: P4 560 - 3.6GHz 800MHz FSB with Hyper-Threading Technology
- Motherboard: Intel® D925XCV Desktop Board - PCI-Express, Intel 925X & ICH6R Chipsets, 800mhz FSB, Serial ATA, Dual Channel 4300 DDR2
- Memory: 3GB (3 Gigabyte) Extreme Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 533MHz
- Video Card: HIS Hightech Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-x x16
- 2nd Video Card: Hauppauge! WinTV PVR-350 Personal Video Recorder, TV/FM Tuner and MPEG-2 Video Capture
- Removable Drive: Alienware® 8-in-1 USB 2.0 Internal Flash Card Reader-Writer
- Floppy Drive: 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
- 1st Hard Drive: 160GB Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
- 2nd Hard Drive: 160GB Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
- 1st Optical Drive: NEC ND-3540A 16x DVD ± R/RW Dual Layer & CD-R/RW Drive
- 2nd Optical Drive: Samsung Writemaster 20x SATA DVD ± R/RW Dual Layer & CD-R/RW Drive W/Lightscribe
- 3rd Optical Drive: Toshiba External USB2.0 HD/DVD ROM Drive
- Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro High Definition 7.1 Surround
- Network Card: Integrated High Performance Intel® 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
- Cable System: Blue Round IDE/Floppy Cables
- Speakers:Creative GigaWorks™ S750 - 7.1 700-Watt Speakers
- Keyboard: Cyborg Green/Black Keys MS Multimedia Keyboard and MS Razor Gaming Mouse
- Operating System: Windows XP Pro Media Center Edition 2005
- 1st Monitor: Medion 19" Widescreen HDCP LCD DVI 5ms response time - black
- 2nd Monitor: TBD (failure)
- Pentium 2 MMX processor running at 400mhz and 512 Level 2 cache
- Motherboard with 100mhz bus speed
- Hitachi GD-2000 DVD-ROM drive at 2xDVD & 32xCD read speeds
- 8gb hard drive in 5.25" form factor
- 64mb of SDRAM memory
- On-board ATI 3D Rage Turbo Pro AGP 2x video & 4mb SyncGraphics memory
- On-board Crystal Clear WDM MPU-401 compatible sound
- Infinity speakers
- Windows 98 operating system
- 56k v.90 modem
As time marched on (or FLEW on as is the case in PC technology), I became outdated and
acquired some upgrades, as follows:
- Upgraded the CPU to a Pentium 3 MMX processor running at 600mhz and 512 Level 2 cache (MAXXED OUT!)
- Upgraded the DVD-ROM drive to a NEC ND-1300A DVD±RW drive 4x2x12 DVD & 16x10x40 CD speeds
- Added a Cendyne CD-RW drive 52x24x52 speeds
- Upgraded the hard drive to an IBM Deskstar 120gb hard drive (8gb drive is OUTTA HERE!)
- Added a Western Digital Caviar 45gb hard drive
- Upgraded to 384mb of PC100 SDRAM memory (MAXXED OUT!)
- Upgraded to Windows 2000 Server Operating System - NTFS drive formats (Win98 is OUTTA HERE!)
- Added a Winnov Videum AV PCI Video Capture card (for webcam and authoring)
- Added an IBM 10/100mb PCI Ethernet adapter on internal network running at 100mb full duplex
- Upgraded to 6.1mb DL/768kb UL routered internet connection (56k modem is OUTTA HERE!)
- Upgraded to a 19" NEC Multisync 95 Monitor
I think my time here serving as the primary PC is limited. I expect to be replaced by
one of these incredible systems from AlienWare.Com - click here.
In the meantime, I'm happy to serve you 24 hours a day - seven days a week - all year long!
