My new computer is (mostly) here! Woo!

[ghostsofgiants]

It was shipped as two separate packages, one of them arrived today. I'm guessing the other will show up tomorrow. The nerd levels emanating from my neighbourhood just tripled.

I also am getting new glasses on Friday for added nerdiness, haha.

[Madrone]

1. Yay!

I LURVE getting new gadgets in the mail. Gadget geek, I am! What kind of computer?

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Well I'm building it myself.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 4gb RAM, GeForce 8800 GT video card, etc.

[DS1]

2. case usually comes separate

assuming you bought a new case, but I think I remember you saying you'd found an old one.

still, I know the excitement, the worst part is "Out for delivery" :D

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Nope, I'm buying the case locally.

Though the case I currently have will suffice until then.

[DS1]

5. You know you're not going to want to take it apart once it's built, right?

I wouldn't. Even in an old cruddy case.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Haha, I know.

I've got an Antec Sonata case right now, it's not that old and is pretty nice, but I'm gonna go to the Sonata III because it has a better PSU, plus it doesn't have the annoying blue LEDs on the front.

[TommyO]

7. The Antec Sonata cases are really nice!

I'm a Mac person (currently using a PowerMac G5, dual-core 2.3Ghz machine, but will be moving to a Mac Pro, 8-core beast later this year), but my brother built a new machine a few months ago using the 1st Antec Sonata case (he bought it for $50 a year before he actually used it) and it's really nice. I know the new Sonatas are even nicer.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. 8 core? Beast is an understatement, haha.

[TommyO]

11. The best thing is that it will last me a good long time.

My current PowerMac is nearing three years old now, and it honestly does have a few years left on it for everything but video For video encoding, at least at the consumer/prosumer level, nothing beats a multi-core intel chip these days. Hell, even an iMac would beat my PowerPC based machine for getting video done.

[DS1]

8. I unhooked the hard drive light on my Centurion5

It was lighting up the entire room

[ghostsofgiants]

9. The Sonata has two blue kinda headlights on the front.

It gets annoing at night, ahah.