{"id":116,"date":"2006-03-17T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-01-15T01:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:51:59","slug":"a-new-pc-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"A new PC on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After work today, I went down to the local clone shop and ordered a new PC. I didn&#8217;t go for a high end CPU &#8212; I just couldn&#8217;t justify the price difference given the relatively small performance differential. What I ended up with was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Motherboard<\/td><td>ASUS P5N32-SLI-DLX<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CPU<\/td><td>Intel P4 D 950<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RAM<\/td><td>2 x 1GB DDR2-667<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Graphic Card<\/td><td>nVidia 7900-GTX 512M<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hard Drive<\/td><td>WD Raptor 74G (10K RPM)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sound<\/td><td>Creative X-Fi Extreme Music<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The CPU definitely isn&#8217;t the most high-end thing on the planet, but it should be a step up from what I currently have. The graphics card should also be significantly faster, so between the two of them I&#8217;m hoping this will be a satisfying upgrade. Mostly though, I am just looking for a replacement for my current, aging gaming machine. It has been through three previous upgrades, and it&#8217;s really starting to get tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, over time, adding a second 7900, a second raptor (raid 0) and one of the new hyperthreaded dual core chips (or whatever succeeds them), will incrementally get me to close to double my performance yet again. Woot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be ready in 7..10 days. Unfortunately, not <em>quite<\/em> in time for Oblivion, but close. That will be my first real test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After work today, I went down to the local clone shop and ordered a new PC. I didn&#8217;t go for a high end CPU &#8212; I just couldn&#8217;t justify the price difference given the relatively small performance differential. What I ended up with was: Motherboard ASUS P5N32-SLI-DLX CPU Intel P4 D 950 RAM 2 x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}