Date: 12/24/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Barring a few upgrades, I'm done building the machine.

Name on the network: Revy (named after a character in an anime/manga series)

System Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (I'm getting an E6700 from my company- hopefully next week)
A-DATA 1GB DDR2 800 PC2-6400 Dual Channel (2 more GB is on RMA from NewEgg)
Acer AL2016w 20" 1680 x 1050 widescreen LCD
Sapphire Radeon X1900GT 256MB PCIe
Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA II
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Thermalake smart case fan with temperature probe (I'll probe the gpu and not cpu...)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX 7.1(didn't replace because this one has remote control)
Logitech X-530 (Front/center/rear/sub)
Aiwa NSX-3500 (Side channels. Pretty clever eh?)




Lights out? No prob. I can see all the keys fine. A reviewer said he didn't like the feel of the Flexiglow keys on the backlit keyboard, but I find it just fine. You just have to actually try typing with it first.



Yes, the UV-reactive motherboard headers actually glow with regular LEDs. Of course, if you want a bright glow you'd need some real UV caselights.

With 6 fans going inside and out, Revy sounds like an air conditioner.

In this picture with the computer turned off you can see that the SDRAM has red heat plates.

Bad pic of the Radeon X1900GT. Almost the whole length of the card is under a big red heatsink-fan unit. The sucker gets HOT during 3DMark. I don't remember the exact numbers- 3DMark05 was over 9000, with 3DMark06 inching towards 4500. I have not overclocked, will wait until I get the E6700 and the other 2 gigs of RAM before I do that. I don't think I'll need to overclock, but I'll just do it or the heck of it. Unreal Tournament 2004 already plays 1680x1050 at highest settings at triple-digit framerates. The real challenge will be playing Oblivion on high definition, and that's what the E6700/3GB upgrade is going to be for.


The front "turbine".


slapped in an intake grill, just in case I need to open up the front for some extra air during overclocking. Notice the ugly beige drives- those are older ones that I'll replace one of these days... they're behind a cover anyways, so who cares??


desktop pic

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