Saturday, January 19, 2008

Frequency of Lemming Suicide Increasing.

It's not so much that I'll be playing Lemmings anymore then I already am (which is never). It's just that I've realized that I haven't made enough of an obnoxious announcement of my new computer. It's especially unusual because It's been over a week now.

So, here's the specs.
  • NanoBTX form factor
    • tiny, yet managable
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
    • Brisbane series 65 nm SOI
      • 64 + 64 KiB (Data + instructions) L1 cache per core
      • 512 KiB fullspeed L2 cache per core
    • 2500 MHz external clock
      • BIOS option for overclocking
    • two decoding core units
    • out-of order processing
    • MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
    • miniscule 65 W power consumption
  • SiS 761GX chipset + 966L Southbridge Motherboard
    • 1000 MHz front side bus
    • Hypertransport bus
    • PCI and PCIexpress onboard
    • USB2.0 onboard
    • on-die Realtek AC`97 High-definition audio and SiS Mirage graphics (located on southbridge)
    • pATA and SATA
    • fully ACPI complient
    • hardware support for RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD.
  • black aluminum case
    • three individually controlled fans
    • front audio and USB ports
    • kewl blue power LED
  • 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
    • it's just ... too awesome. :P
  • 360 GB SATA HDD
    • offers more storage space then all of my previous HDDs combined.
  • 2 optical drives
    • dual-layer DVD writer
      • DVD -+ R/W, DVD RAM writing
      • buffer underrun protection
      • Lightscribe
    • DVD/CD-R combo
      • reads CD+G, too, so I can do karaoke. :P
      • I seriously only have this because it can write CDs at 8x speed. The other one doesn't support 8x, and I need that to write Dreamcast discs.
  • Floppy!
    • Holds a MASSIVE 1.44 MEGAbytes! W00T!
    • Take that, Magneto-optical drives!
    • holds up to Shugart Association standards!
    • Uses Double-Sided Double-Density 2.5" diskettes
    • PWNs 10" drives.
  • Windows!
    • The door that covers the floppy drive opens and closes like a hinged window!
    • There's another for the front USB and audio ports.
  • Software
    • Windows XP.
      • 32-bit version, not utilizing full computing potential
      • supports partitions only if they're under 137 GB
      • fails to install proper RAID drivers
      • fails to install proper SATA drivers
      • fails to install proper USB drivers
        • works somewhat, at USB1.1 speeds.
      • has SOME redeeming properties
        • Adobe CS3 Master suit
        • ... it's working (for now)?
    • Linux!
      • Not even started to be installed!
      • There's a partition for it!
      • I'm building this one from source!
        • It's gonna take advantage of ALL features of the system, unlike SOME operating systems we know....
      • KVM!
      • Makes girls think you're sexy.
Damn, my fingers hurt now.

If you scrutinize these features, you'll find that this computer's not that good. But that's all washed away by it's tiny price: ~$250.
Do you feel PWND yet?


P.S. If you didn't understand how the article related to it's title, it's because Lemmings depended on the CPU clock for timing, so my increase in clock speed is relational to the frequency of Lemming suicide.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

First, Windows is awesome unlike linux or unix or unbutu or whatever the hell it's called. JUST USE VISTA. here's a podcast for you http://www.on10.net/

next, i'm not jealous of the ram considering i have 6 gigs of ddr3, although i only have an overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E4400.

Akir said...

Why would I use an operating system that breaks compatibility with all my most important programs, crashes every few minutes, and slowly dies from increasing performance? Last I heard, you couldn't customize the kernel of ANY version of windows.