Super Duper Computer!

Sometime ago, my aging 4 year old laptop died. After sitting around for a month, not knowing what to do every night, I finally borrowed some money to buy a new desktop. What.... I have just started working, so I don't have that kind of cash.

After several attempts to stay on budget, I ended up with this specifications:

Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3P FSB 1333
Asus EN8600GTS 256MB
Kingston 2GB DDR2-800 Hyper X
Samsung SATA-2 Lightscribe
Seagate 500GB Sata2 Hard Disk
Coolermaster 550W Extreme Power
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Casing
Philips 19" Wide-screen LCD 190CW

Guess how much does this cost? After adding up everything including some planned upgrades/add-ons, I think it is going to cost around SG$2.2k just for the bare metal. Wee~

But I can't get my hands on an 8800GTS graphics card.... Oh well... Sticking out tongue

Of course, I'm installing Gentoo and Windows XP on the system.

Hmm.... Maybe I should put the installation troubles in another post. Stay tuned. Laughing out loud

Gentoo installation was a breeze...

Now that I have my super duper machine, the first stop is to put my favourite Linux distribution on it. Yes, yes, me very free.

Surprising, the installation went very smoothly, considering it's a 64-bit installation. Somehow, I don't even have to configure my ALSA or do much X configuration! It just worked! Whahahahah.... What....

I have to admit that I'm using the NVIDIA binary blob though. Guess I can't be a FSF advocate then. Smiling

Maybe I should try to get Compiz working. But playing games seems more important now....

Speaking about games, somehow I can't get any SEGA Genesis emulator to work. Not Gens, or Generator, nothing!! All my ROMS just crashed after loading. Oh well.... More incentive to install Windows XP then.