Bit of Ivory

(notice the correct use of “it’s” and “its” in the title. :P)

My computer has shipped! We finally decided on building one and reusing some of my components. Luckily I’ve got a dad who understands these things. For those who actually understand this stuff, specs are as follows:

Case: Antec Solution SLK1650 Beige Steel ATX Mini Tower Computer Case 350W Power Supply

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-VM CSM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard (this one has an integrated video and sound card, which saves some money)

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor

Memory: CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA NCQ 3Gb/s ST3160812AS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

DVD player/writer: PLEXTOR Beige 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner

No, it’s not a super computer. It’s not even a darn sweet computer. Instead it’s a perfectly adequate, bottom-of-the-line-while-still-getting-decent-quality computer. I think it’ll suit me just fine, as it’s about a million times better than what I have at the moment (a 500 MHz Pentium III with 512 MB RAM and a 20 GB Hard Drive) and isn’t going to break the bank. Pretty soon Harry II will be up and running!

First day of class today. It went well. I think I’m going to love the class. Great teacher, great classmates, and great subject matter. I mean, any class where we get to read Byron and Austen (Persuasion, yay!) and watch The Madness of King George is a-ok by me.