So,
The Guv-ment Cheeses have blessed me with a tax return of roughly $2k. I can't complain.
So It's upgrading time. I'm looking to get a rather nifty box.. I'm going with an Athlon (Oh, the "dark side" after so many years of Intel Loyalty..). So far, my shopping list is looking rahter like this, any comments? Better Brands? Good monitor recommendations?
-ABIT KT7-RAID Mobo
-Athlon 1.2Ghz (133 Bus? 266? Does it really matter for mostly Q3/Perl Programming?)
-512Meg Cas2 SDRAM (Cas2 necessary? Which brand? Want to get 2-256Meg sticks)
-Nvidia Gerfoce2 GTS Card w/ 64 megs (Won't wait for GF3..)
-SB Live X-gamer 5.1
-19" Monitor (Prefer Trinitron/Diamondtron Tube, Whos best? Sony? NEC? Mitsubishi?)
-IBM 75GXP 40-ish Gig HD (Used to work for IBM, still love their drives..)
-Some crappy CDrom drive
-No DVD (Its not "here" Yet, waiting for cheap DVDR)
-Case? (Probably a Nice Enlight-esque Mid-Full-Tower)
-Big IBM Clickey Keyboard
-Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel (My anti Carpal-Tunnel Pointer / Q3 Rat of choice)
Keep in mind, That I'll Be running FreeBSD/Linux as the primary OS on this, with a Win98/XP (when it comes out) partition.
All this will replace my "aging" P3-800-512Meg-GeforceDDR setup. (Now that box will be delagated to the Girlfriend, who "suffers" on a p2-400/256Meg with a TNT2, and her box will become the Lan-mp3/quake 3 server of love, on my newly installed 768K SDSL line..)
The Guv-ment Cheeses have blessed me with a tax return of roughly $2k. I can't complain.
So It's upgrading time. I'm looking to get a rather nifty box.. I'm going with an Athlon (Oh, the "dark side" after so many years of Intel Loyalty..). So far, my shopping list is looking rahter like this, any comments? Better Brands? Good monitor recommendations?
-ABIT KT7-RAID Mobo
-Athlon 1.2Ghz (133 Bus? 266? Does it really matter for mostly Q3/Perl Programming?)
-512Meg Cas2 SDRAM (Cas2 necessary? Which brand? Want to get 2-256Meg sticks)
-Nvidia Gerfoce2 GTS Card w/ 64 megs (Won't wait for GF3..)
-SB Live X-gamer 5.1
-19" Monitor (Prefer Trinitron/Diamondtron Tube, Whos best? Sony? NEC? Mitsubishi?)
-IBM 75GXP 40-ish Gig HD (Used to work for IBM, still love their drives..)
-Some crappy CDrom drive
-No DVD (Its not "here" Yet, waiting for cheap DVDR)
-Case? (Probably a Nice Enlight-esque Mid-Full-Tower)
-Big IBM Clickey Keyboard
-Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel (My anti Carpal-Tunnel Pointer / Q3 Rat of choice)
Keep in mind, That I'll Be running FreeBSD/Linux as the primary OS on this, with a Win98/XP (when it comes out) partition.
All this will replace my "aging" P3-800-512Meg-GeforceDDR setup. (Now that box will be delagated to the Girlfriend, who "suffers" on a p2-400/256Meg with a TNT2, and her box will become the Lan-mp3/quake 3 server of love, on my newly installed 768K SDSL line..)