Sustained visitors and (finally) a new PC May 3, 2008
When I say finally in the title, I mean it. A whole week with no gaming (well, minus the Wii). I guess productivity did rise 400%, and work hours increased 10-fold, but I wasn’t gaming, and that is what counts, I think. So, a new machine for me, but no more money either. For the geeks, here’s the specs:
- Intel Core2Duo E8200 (I think thats the number): 2.66Ghz w/ 6MB L2 Cache
- 4GB 800MHz OCZ value RAM (2×2GB)
- Gigabyte P35 LGA775 Motherboard
- 1x 160GB Hitachi HDD SATAII
- 1x 80GB Seagate HDD SATAII
- 1x 80GB Lacie external HDD (usb)
- nVidia 9600GT ($400 cheaper than 8800, but comparable in speed) 512GB DDR3 RAM
- Cheap low quality case (does it’s job, lots of fans and cooling spaces
- 600W Ebuyer VALUE Power Supply
I’m pretty pleased with it, took a few hours to build it all, then I thought it broke. Of course, I had stupidly forgotten that motherboards actually have two power plugs, the 24pin and the 4pin. *silly me*
AS-Levels are in a few weeks, so it’s work, work and more work at the moment, but I’ll still be around.
In other news, it seems this blog has picked up sustained visitors! It’s off the front page of BestWebGallery (whom gave me 5000+ visits), and the uniques have dropped off significantly, BUT, they now seem to have levelled off at a very nice value of ~200, much more than I’ve ever seen before. Perhaps CSS gallerys can bring returning visitors. We shall see…
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May 29th, 2008 at 4:38 am
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..