{"id":2628,"date":"2010-02-20T00:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2010-04-24T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:44:11","slug":"flowery-new-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/02\/flowery-new-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowery new desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half ago I put together <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1273\">a system<\/a> built with some pieces I purchased from the Trenton Computer Festival. It was a server though, pretty loud, very heavy, and the hardware was a couple years old when I bought it so became out of date pretty quickly, and the Xeons were too old to have virtualization. When I decided to move I also decided to replace it and have the parts delivered here in SF.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I put together the new machine.<\/p>\n<p>Specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor<\/li>\n<li>GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard<\/li>\n<li>2 x OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model OCZ3P1333LV4GK (so, 8G total)<\/li>\n<li>500G EIDE harddrive (from old desktop)<\/li>\n<li>1T SATA harddrive (from old desktop)<\/li>\n<li>ATI Radeon X1550 (from old desktop)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty sweet, right? I&#8217;m excited about the new specs, but I&#8217;m also excited about the case:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/flowers_and_sparkles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/flowers_and_sparkles_sm.jpg\" alt=\"In Win Allure\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the In Win Allure case, with light purple flowers and Swarovski crystals! I felt a bit silly spending over $100 on a case that doesn&#8217;t come with a PSU, but I really couldn&#8217;t resist after seeing how gorgeous it was.<\/p>\n<p>I put it together on Thursday and tossed in a couple harddrives from my old machine. Unfortunately I was running 32-bit Ubuntu on that old machine so it looks like I&#8217;ll be reinstalling with 64-bit probably next weekend so I can actually use that 8G of RAM and I&#8217;ll be swapping out my 500G EIDE with a 500G SATA I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half ago I put together a system built with some pieces I purchased from the Trenton Computer Festival. It was a server though, pretty loud, very heavy, and the hardware was a couple years old when I bought it so became out of date pretty quickly, and the Xeons were too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-pink","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}