Woke up this morning to the sound of silence.
No TV.
No fans.
No hard drives.
Nothing (except my brother's cat trying to re-arrange the carpet).
Arse. My ancient Athlon PC has finally booted its bucket. I suppose it's been a bit flaky of late - USB devices disconnecting randomly, video card spluttering occasionally, that sort of thing. Now it gives only a forlorn "beeeeeeeeep" when it's powered up, and it promptly switches itself off again. Maybe it achieved sentience during the night, watched News24 for a while (I think that's what was on when I fell asleep) and decided that this isn't a world it wants to be part of.
Or maybe one of the caps on the motherboard went out of tolerance and hosed the processor. We'll never know.
Anyway, all the motherboard connections have changed since the Athlon XP days, so I'm having to replace pretty much everything. Here's the run-down:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Processor
Asus P5QL SE S775 Motherboard
2GB Kingston RAM
NVidia 9500GT 1GB Video Card
250GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
Akasa Ultra Quiet 460w Power Supply
I'm keeping my Lian Li case, the two CD/DVD drives, and my trusty Trinifuckinghugetron Sun monitor (1600x1200 of glorious ).
Total: 300 quid delivered. None too shabby. Can't really afford it, but still, none too shabby. Yes, the video card's weak and 2GB RAM isn't that much these days, but Unreal 2004 is about the most graphics intensive game I play, and Linux is pretty light on RAM. Hell, the old machine only had 1/2GB RAM and a GeForce 5200, fortheloveofgod.
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