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Computer Upgrades

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Parts for my new computer came in last Monday (the 8th). I had a micro ATX case sitting around from a year ago which I was going to put my motherboard in (because I wanted front USB connectors, which my current case doesn’t have), but it turned out my current motherboard wouldn’t fit. So to avoid wasting the case, I was finally forced to buy a new motherboard. :)

So I’ve built a new development computer (2.0GHz Duo Core, 2GB, 250GB drive running the brave new frontier world of Windows Vista). Next I’ll take the old development computer (2.4GHz P4 1GB) and turn it into a media computer/database server for the living room. I got a spiffy “media” case (which is basically just a tower case turned on its side, like the old-school desktop cases) and a nifty wireless keyboard/joystick/mouse contraption which should work well for that purpose.

While I was ordering parts I also got another 1GB memory for my purple gaming box. I noticed that I was running out of memory quite a bit with Company of Heroes.

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