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The Event Will be Televised

01 Jun

I am as happy as a lark. I am as excited as a fat kid at an all you can eat buffet. I am as ecstatic as a young black man who drove past a police roadblock without incident. I will give you a minute to guess why.

I have built or recommended bling systems before- but I think I have stumbled upon a real prize that has no rivals. Okay, yes, if it were built on Intel with Fermi it would have an easy rival- but my intention was not to go for broke. The aim was to get a monster machine that is fit, agile and cost effective.

I received confirmation this morning that all my parts are either in or on the way to Miami. I am unable to cancel the purchase, which means I am stuck with them. No turning back!

Here are all the parts in transit. I plan to reuse a couple bits from my older (dead) system- namely the dvd burner.

Case and Power Supply

Antec Lanboy Air

Corsair 850W 80+ Silver Certified Power Supply

CPU and Cooler

AMD Phenom 2 X6 Hexa-Core Processor

Corsair Hydro H70 High Performance CPU Cooler

Motherboard

MSI AM3 AMD 890FX Chipset Motherboard

Memory and Hard Drive

Corsair Vengance 8GB Dual Channel RAM

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD Hard Drive

Graphics Card

XFX ATI Radeon HD6870 1GB 256bit Graphics Card

Input Devices

Razer BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Razer Deathadder 3500 High Precision 3.5G Infrared Gaming Mouse

Operating System

Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

Good Times Incoming

Those are the parts coming. I should receive everything by Tuesday June 7, 2011. I plan to do a video unboxing and assembly. My next blog post will be two videos (one of the unboxing and the other of the assembly.) After that I will overclock and see how much performance I can squeeze from Godzilla.

I wasn’t kidding when I said the event will be televised.

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A businessman, farmer and a network technician. I am heavily interested in technology as well as understanding the structures in business and society. I like talking about financial independence and sharing views on a wide variety of other topics.
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Posted by on June 1, 2011 in PC Tech

 

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