Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:49:39 +0000

new pc, done

To stop myself from endlessly wasting time browsing computer hardware I have actually bought a new computer.

  • Giga-byte GA-G33M-S2H mainboard. (G33 chipset with DVI on board. Thanks Björn for the pointer!)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66 GHz, 4MB 2nd level cache)
  • 2 GB RAM
  • some other stuff, including an absurdely large heatsink. (Thermaltake SI-128 SE). Unless you are using a huge case you must mount this heatsink on the mainboard before installing it in the case. Otherwise you'll need to rip out all cables and start from scratch as I did. ;-)

Contrary to my initial plans I have gone for G33 instead of G965, since according to all benchmarks I could find the latter is not a lot faster (just a little bit, both are dog slow compared to almost any separate card). This allowed me to use a board with DVI on board and use one of the cheaper E6x50 CPUs (FSB 1333).

I am still running mainly etch, just with a newer kernel from backports.org and Holger's Xorg backport. Everything sees to work.


Posted by Andreas Metzler | Permanent link | File under: life
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