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This was a default that came with Ubuntu, which I couldn't believe properly scaled up to fill all 3 screens, without repeating, or stretching, automagically when I switched to the Matrox TripleHead2Go from the 17" I used to set it all up. I wish I liked it. I'm not really against brown, but this looks like an elephant's butt.
Also, I have a particular image from childhood in my memories that I've never placed. It almost feels like a church, but the key ingredients are very dark brown interior walls, benches (pews?), and drab ornamentation, creating a very dark space, mixed with a somewhat blinding light coming through a small window, casting everything in even darker, more ominous shadow.
This heads in that direction - feels almost like a cave wall (made of elephant butt) with a light shining in from above through some roof hole - and it manages to evoke some kind of deep-seated sadness in me at a very low, almost imperceptible, yet still depressing level.
I should see a therapist.
Mid-size tower, comes with 4 fans including a big one on top. That makes 9 fans total for the system! Reasonably quiet though, because relatively slow speed.
Another angle of my PC build. I'll have to redo all my shots soon so I can use the 105mm S lens. Regardless the 24-50mm did well!
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The rather controversial Asus L1N64-SLI WS mobo!
Dual socket-F CPUs, 4x800MHz DDR2 RAM slots, 2 Nvidia chipsets, allowing 2x 16x PCIe graphics slots running at 16x fullspeed. The dual chipset kicks out plenty of heat I gather, as do the VRMs. The heatsinks are actually aluminium, made to look like copper. How cheapo is that?! Note 12 SATA ports! Thats a result of the dual chipsets.
So its a Hummer of a mobo, but it fits my needs fairly well - dual CPU sockets and fast 800MHz DDR2 RAM, with scope for SLI graphics as well. The power draw of this mobo, with a pair of Athlon FX-74 3GHz CPUs (125W TDP!) and a pair of NVidia 8800 GPU cards is crazy - needing a 1KW PSU! So my spec of 2x 1.8GHz Opterons (95W TDP) and a single NV 7950GT card should have a much smaller power draw.
If you're wondering why I went for AMD, instead of the more sensible Intel option... AMD give away their CodeAnalyst code profiling tool for free. Intel charge lots of cash for their VTune tool. So as a coder on a budget, I preferred the AMD route. Plus I like the way AMD CPUs have the memory directly connected, instead of via the northbridge, like the Intel systems do. The two AMD CPUs have the direct link between each other as well. Its a very interesting divergence from Intel's classic northbridge setup, so I hope to learn some more as I hack code for this PC! 8o)
I think this one's fake, but it's nice in a smaller view like this. You can see my head in the dark. It's like I'm looking out the cockpit windows of my own private submarine. Playing games on this is going to be awesome.
This is XP. Later, when I got the new box, and set it up with Linux, I ran through a huge vat of 3-screen desktops again to see how they looked, and this one popped up again.
The Fossils HDD pretty much kicked the bucket earlier in the year. My friend Brad let himself be sweet talked into them paying him to build them a new computer....it was to originally retrieve the data (which of course he did) and it turned out the hardware was older than Methusalah, so a failure was not overly surprising.
Given my recent anxiety about the enormous size of my photo collection, I too have learnt from this, and bought yet another HDD (1Tb....scuse me....just have to drool) for backing up my photo collection, amongst other important "Stuff".
RAM was going for peanuts so picked up 2 x 2Gb sticks of DDR2 (at least I think it was) as the mobo was only running 2 x 1Gb.
Thinking I might try get more out of this dual core and trial Windows7.............I have xp atm and am avoiding Vistal like the plague. I can get more out of the cores and omfg......MORE RAM! I have propensity to have nearly every app on my computer open and running simultaneously.
I have been known (I can see this on my G15 Logitech KB <3) to be running both the CPU and RAM close to 100% for hours at a time...as you can imagine, there is pain and screaming.