Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

... an HP Pavilion Elite HPE-450t, customized with things like:

• Intel Core i7-870
• 9GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM
• 1.5TB RAID1 (2x1.5TB SATA HDDs)
• Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
• 2GB NVIDIA GeForce420

Should be good for doing BOINC

Now, I bought this system customized expecting to pretty much plug it in and go, only having to add externally attached peripherals to complete things. Though I do plan to do upgrades in the future, specifically I got the the 3 DIMM ( 2x4GB + 1GB ) configuration of slightly more memory so that I could potentially take it to the 16GB max at a future date without having to buy all 4 new DIMMs. If I had bought the 8GB configuration, it would've come as 4 2GB DIMMs. Anyways...without doing anything else first...I just had to take a peek inside.

Now, I don't know if it was that I got a Core i7-860 Dell computer at work (replacing a P4-2.8Ghz machine, so slower than TARDIS - a P4-3.2GHz w/HT machine) or ordering this computer...but TARDIS had seemed to get slower and slower, to pretty much insufferable these last few days. Still not ready to turn new system on....more later.

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