My Computer

Hopefully, I'll actually keep this up to date. Several friends are asking what I'm currently running at home since it is fairly well known that I like playing with PC parts for a hobby. Being an avid gamer drives the need for new hardware, and I really enjoy buying and testing various parts. While I am rarely at "the bleeding edge", I stay pretty close by.

I have two primary computers. One runs the home theater, the other is my "work" setup. The HTPC was built primarily to play games and be very quiet without resorting to water cooling as I did for the old gaming rig. It is comprised of the following parts:

    Zalman HD160 HTPC case

    Asus P5WDH-Deluxe MB

    Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 CPU

    Nvidea 8800 GTS 640MB video card

    2 GB Corsair PC800 DDR2

    3x Western Digital 500GB RE2 drives running RAID 5 (1 TB of storage)

    Zalman 600w power supply

    Samsung Dual layer DVD burner

The HTPC drives an Optoma H78DC3 projector and fills a 106" screen (more details on the home theater page)

 

 

As for "What's under the hood?" of the "work" PC , here's the current parts list:

Koolance 601BLW Water cooled case
Koolance CPU-200G  water block
Koolance CHC-A05 video card water block
Zalman 400w silent Power Supply
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
Intel P4C 3.0 (running at 3.46)
1GB OCZ PC3500 CAS 2 DDR
2x Western Digital 7200rpm 8MB cache 300GB RAID 1
2x Western Digital Raptor SATA 10,000rpm 8MB cache 36GB RAID 0
Plextor 8X DVD+/-RW PX-708A
Plextor 48/24/48x CD-RW
Sony 3.5" floppy drive
ATI Radeon x800XT (running at 520/520)
Fusion HDTV 3
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1speakers
Dell 2405FPW 24" Monitor
Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard
Logitech Trackman Marble

(All of these pictures are clickable for a "Super Sized" image.)