A one thousand watt power supply for my latest Core i5 kludge box. Nothing in the box is really "state of the art," but much of it is "second best available" stuff. I'm lovin' it.
Second best usually means big savings over state of the art.
That was my goal in throwing this thing together. I know calling it a kludge makes it seem as if it is barely able to hold its own, but to be most honest, this is the best computer I have ever had the privilege to touch, much less own.
I have downloaded some of my freeware fractal programs (as MY OWN acid/litmus test - that is how I will most often use this knew toyy, after all) to some of our "best in store," high-grade, name brand computers and this simple, skinny, half-way there work of art I have set into life, makes all but the fifteen hundred dollar beast look like stumbling, sleepy, weak little siblings.
I spent just over half that sum (well nine fifty in American dollars, instead of fifteen hundred; that is not too bad), including pony-ing up (A full fucking fifth of the entire cost for an OS - goddamnit) for legal Win7. With all this RAM and all this video processing power (found a deal on a "470") and this killer main cpu assembly thing, all else not fucking even running on this machine - this thing is light-butted and fucking flies. I have all possible "windows services and funtionality" turned off or disabled and as little third party crap onboard as possible. This is my new graphics machine - all it has to do is render (clock cycles) pixels and keep them all in a row.
I don't really give a shit that I have to plug into it to save the results of its toil on another drive. It spits out large files in hours, instead of days or weeks, unlike my old one (from around '05, running warez XP - I think that was the last one I put together - now you know why I am SO pleased with myself ans shit) that this mid-grade thing replaced.
i'm lovin' it!!
