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April 08, 2004
Shuttle XPC
Callisto is the name of my newest computer. I love it. I can say without qualification, that it's the sweetest machine I've ever owned, well with the exception of the original 6085.
It's a Shuttle XPC SB75G2. And for the first time in life, I assembled the whole thing myself. I got all the goodies: Serial ATA 7200 RPM Maxtor 120GB drive,
Sony DVD-Rom (I'm going to get the Plextor DVD Burner later, I didn't really need to burn DVDs right now). It's got the multithreading P4 3GHz CPU and an ATI Radeon 9600 SE video board. I don't need more than that since I'm a console gamer, not a PC gamer.
I'm not overclocking anything and I didn't use thermal grease on the chip. I'm still having a bit of trouble with the ATI card, but since graphics aren't a priority I can let it slide for the moment. The weird thing was that I had to stick in an old Ethernet card because the native interface is too fast for my LAN. It has got a 1394 which runs some gawdawful 400Mbps. My pathetic little routers don't handle that, and they're brand new.
So if you don't see me blogging, it's because I'm deep into file transfer hell.
Posted by mbowen at April 8, 2004 10:38 AM
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I've been thinking about getting one (or two) of those for a media center thingie. Did you get the dual monitor version or the one with NSTC output?
Posted by: P6 at April 8, 2004 12:09 PM
Yeah. It has three outputs on the back, one for flat panels and the round one for S-VIDEO and the standard VGA thing. So I could hookup a television.
I downloaded the ATI drivers and did some screen captures from the Matrix DVD. Nice. My wallpaper is now Morpheous as he looks at Neo saying 'How did I beat you?'
Posted by: Cobb at April 8, 2004 12:53 PM
"I'm a console gamer, not a PC gamer." I guess I won't hold this against you : )
I think you may want to cross over to the dark side when Doom3 and Half-Life2 hit the stores. Maybe dabble with the PC gaming. By the way the BattleField games from EA on the PC are very good. I have the latest BattleField Vietnam.
Posted by: Dave at April 8, 2004 03:33 PM