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School starting: New PC
By Nick Hodge | January 25, 2008
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.
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!
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Topics: geek, microsoft, technology, windowsxp |
January 26th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Where did you get the VIA ARTiGo? Pico-ITX are impressively small/quiet for integrated stuff, maybe for my WHS box?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
AUSPCMarket had it listed as a 'new thing'. Before I thought twice, I ordered it.
The case is the size of a 5.25" CDROM drive; so you could pop it into a PC as a baby-real symbiotic alien device.
Anyway, this weekend's project has been the making of two good machines from three. PATA, BIOS, reconfigurations and reinstallations.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Although a different model, this humorous clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWm4JtP-rpI&feature=related shows the workspace potential. Pity the Pico ITX doesn't fully support Vista and SATA drive (connector but no cable). The VIA marketing guy at CES 2007 said it could be used for car Internet. Centaur Technology say the VIA C7 CPU with "Isaiah" architecture released this month will give high performance at low power. See TechnoVoyance.com for other developments of pico sized PC's.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Thomas; currently working out what I am going to do with this beastie... could be interesting!