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PC">School starting: New PC

By Nick Hodge | January 25, 2008

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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!

Topics: geek, microsoft, technology, windowsxp | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “School starting: New PC”

  1. Paul Says:
    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?

  2. Nick Hodge Says:
    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.

  3. Thomas Suters Says:
    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.

  4. Nick Hodge Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Thomas; cur­rently work­ing out what I am going to do with this beastie… could be interesting!

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