This wouldn't have happened with Gainsborough or one of those proper painters.

Slotless in Seattle

So I'm putting my new PC together. So far I've installed the motherboard, the CPU, the video card.

I have one slot free.

Because the motherboard includes a wireless adaptor, which takes up one slot, and two USB panels, which each take up a slot, and a USB/Firewire panel, which takes up a slot. And the video card has a little daughter-board for HDTV, which takes up yet another slot.

Without actually installing any expansion cards, six out of a theoretical seven slots are gone.

Fortunately, the motherboard also includes eight SATA ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, eight-channel sound, and SP-DIF in and out, so I'm not in a hurry to add anything.

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The Bitznpieces Empire

All the sundry components for my new computer are now safely scattered about my living room, waiting to be, like, plugged in.

I'm thinking of doing a full review of the process. With pictures! And benchmarks!

Now, Fedora Core 4 Test 3, or Centos 4? Hmm. Fedora Core 4 will be out in a month, but I can't wait a month. And reinstalling this box once it's in production could prove irksome. So I'm leaning towards Centos this time round.

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Shininess Abounds

Picked up my new toys today! Athlon 64 3200+, Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI, Logitech diNovo Media Desktop, Abit RX600 Pro-HDTV, and various bits and pieces.

Now I just have to take it home and put it all together...

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Still More Shiny Thing!

Didn't get to pick up my new computer today. Sad Pixy.

But here's a picture of the keyboard I'm getting:

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More Shiny Thing!

My new super-duper 64-bit computer will finally arrive tomorrow. Complete with 2GB of memory and 500GB of disk. Yay me!

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