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School starting: New PC

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After suc­cess build­ing my own PC, with a Quad-core Intel Q6600 pro­cessor: it was time to update Liam’s old PC (Dell 5150 with an old Pen­tium 4 HT processor)

Using the same case and power sup­ply, but a dif­fer­ent memory and mother­board con­fig­ur­a­tion (P35 Giga­byte) the build pro­cess was rel­at­ively quick. Fresh install of Win­dows XP, and a faster 500Gb hard drive: Liam won’t know him­self. Just tak­ing time to rein­stall his applic­a­tions. I did have a mahor fail when installing onto “drive d” rather than drive c. Thank­fully, Microsoft Know­ledge base helped.

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In the same order, I also obtained a VIA ARTiGO. This is a pico-ITX baby PC. Delic8genius gave me some ideas for what to make this machine into… but other ideas are welcome!

Written by Nick Hodge

January 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pm