 Well, I had an entire entry written out. It had pictures and everything. Then when I hit "submit," Xanga said that it was performing system maintenance, and I lost everything. Then, in a completely unrelated situation, I began vomiting uncontrollably and spent the rest of the night recovering or sleeping. Sometimes I hate you, Xanga. After a couple of weeks of trying to find time to post this, I've finally got a few minutes to sit down and type something out. Between exercises at work and unpacking/organizing at home, I've had very little time for software tweaking or just playing around on my new system. It took me a little while to do it, but once everything was finished, I was pretty happy with the results. I doubt that most people will find meaning in comparative lists of numbers and stats, but for reference, here are the simple (and biggest) differences between Hydra and my last machine, Cerberus: Cerberus: - Processor: Dual Core AMD 2.8 Ghz
- RAM: 8 GB DDR2 Dual-Channel
- Hard Drive: 300 GB SATA
- Video: 512 MB nVidia GeForce 8600 (2)
- Power Supply: 550 Watts
- USB Ports: 6
- Firewire (1394) Ports: 0
- eSATA Ports: 0
- Monitor: Westinghouse 19" (3/4)
- OS: Windows XP Pro x64
Hydra: - Processor: Intel i7 975 Extreme Edition 3.33 Ghz (Quad-Core)
- RAM: 12 GB DDR3 Tri-Channel (Patriot Viper)
- Hard Drive: 1 TB SATA
- Video: 1024 MB nVidia GeForce GTX 280 OCX Edition (2)
- Power Supply: 1000 Watts
- USB Ports: 12
- Firewire (1394) Ports: 2
- eSATA Ports: 2
- Monitor: Westinghouse 19" (4)
- OS: Windows XP Pro x64
So, at a glance, (even without getting into the EVGA X58 Classified motherboard) it's obvious that Hydra is several steps ahead of anything else I've ever built.
Getting all of the parts together (especially the processor) took some time. Most of that time was spent waiting on my travel voucher to go through.
After that, it was a fairly simple matter of organizing (sort of) all of the parts, and assembling them. 

It was a fairly simple and straightforward process to put the computer together, run the wires, and check all the connections.

After that, I added a few finishing touches...
And there you have it. The most powerful computer I've ever built or used. Now if I could just find time to actually play with it. |