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New rig.
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I thought I need to quickly make most of you a little bit jealous.. So here's my new PC specs:
- Antec quiet case with rubber mounting for drives and dedicated ducting for the CPU heatsink.
- Seagate 250gig 7200rpm drive (Media drive)
- 2x Western Digital 36.7gig sata raptor 10000rpm drives (Setup as RAID striped) (Boot drives)
- Asus P5B deluxe mboard with built in wifi / firewire and kazillion USB ports.
- Geforce PX8800GTS 640mb screen card (Most expensive thing in my box!!!) I should post pictures of this thing! It looks like a brick with heat pipes all over it!
- 2gigs DDR2 ram dual channel geil 4-4-4-12
- Sound blaster audigy 4
- Intel ATX dual core 2.4gig with 4meg cache.
- Double layer DVD rewriter
I don't forsee any problems with whatever games I care to throw at it. I run all games on 1600x1280 res on maxed out graphics... :)
Oh.. um... should run VS2005 quite nicely too.
I've got some 3dMark scores if anyone wants to challenge me. Heh heh
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Long time no see... and now from across the sea!
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Well, I can't believe just how long it's been since my last post here. And so much has happened since!
The biggest change is that I'm no longer in South Africa. My family and I are now permanent residents on the Gold Coast, Australia! Yeah baby! I now live by the sea, in a place where most Australians come for their holidays. We've been here since the beginning of January and we've only now started to get settled in. The house is almost fully furnished and our car is being delievered next week. And the biggest news is that I've FINALLY found work.
I had a few options open here, but most were in Brisbane city itself which is an hour drive each way from where we're living. That would have been a killer! Not to mention that parking in the city can run up to $25 a day. Then I applied for a position here on the Gold Coast at a company called "Austar". They are similar to DSTV and Multichoice in South Africa. They do pay TV, broadband and dialup internet and cellular subscriptions. So it should prove to be an interesting and challenging role for me.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to starting there, and finally getting back to work. I'll keep you all posted!