The new computer finally arrived!

Oh.my.god. I feel like a little kid who has been pushing a Matchbox car around the living room and someone just handed me the keys to a Formula One racecar!!! I am giddy like a little girl! :-D

OK, here's the scoop (to a point...he was evil and didn't include a spec sheet, so I'm having to find things out on my own):
Antec Sonata III 500 case
Asus P5N7a-VM motherboard
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @2.4GHz
3.25GB RAM (I forgot to look and I'm too darn excited to pull the side of the case off again, so forgive my lack of brand names)
nVidia nForce something-or-other
LG DVD writer
iStar card reader
Windows XP SP3

This is bad...I don't want to take the time to figure out how big the HDD is. LOL I'll really need to pull the side off again tomorrow and get more details. I just couldn't wait to share. :-D

 

Congrats on the new toy. You don't have to take off the side to find our the HD size, Right click on Start-Explore-right click on C-select properties.

Everest is good, and I think available here at MajorGeeks.

http://majorgeeks.com/google_search...://majorgeeks.com;LP:1;FORID:11&hl=en&x=0&y=0


Have fun with it! :-D

 

Thank you! LOL I've been so hyper I completely forgot how to do that! LOL

250GB. I may swoon! LOL Seriously...it's been a hundred years since I've had a REAL new toy. I may never go to bed. :-D

 

Congrats on the new thinking machine, Tibbs:cool. At a guess, I would say you 'prolly have 4GB of RAM, (showing up as 3.25GB in Win XP, (32 bit)).
There's quite a few progs. you can use to tell you what you have in terms of hardware/software. Everest, as stated, or Belarc Advisor, (free d/l), etc.

~ Enjoy your new toy!.

 

Congratulations on the new toy, i hope you have lots of fun with it.

As for seeing what is inside, I like this little program.

http://majorgeeks.com/Speccy_d6358.html

 

Nice rig!

Makes me want to retire my trusty "super-computer" I built in 2004 - 2005 . . . your new one makes mine look like a model T :-D

 

Sounds like a very nice new "toy".
Ensure you have defenses installed first thing. Hate to have that machine hosed before you really have a chance to play with it.

 

Even though this is the only part I can understand :-o - happy for you

 

Ooo, that's a nice toy! Congratulations!

And don't listen to those boring people earlier in the thread. Stay up and play with it for as long as you want to. LOL

 

Apparently, W7 has issues with that mobo according to customer feedback.

HEY, congrats Tibbs!! Now you can multitask to your hearts content.:cool

 

I am a bizarre combination of a total geek and a Luddite. My old machine was running Win 2K. LOL We decided XP would be the best option for me to get dragged kicking and screaming into the near past rather than the distant past. LOL

The guy who sent it to me runs Futurelooks and MEGATechNews (I "work" for him at the latter), and if I understand correctly the various companies involved sent him the parts and "all" he did was put it together. I suspect there will be dozens of cookies heading his way again soon, since he insists it was a gift. He'll be sending me pics of the assembly as well as a spec sheet soon, so I'll post the real, (hopefully) less giddy stuff then. :-D

As for sleep...BAH! I was up until almost 5am installing security and all my other stuff, then spent at least ten minutes mooning over how very pretty the case is. LOL

 

Congrats Sgt. Tibbs, I am sure you will have lots of fun with it I have XP SP3 and I like it :-D I say, stay up and enjoy it! Whoo-Hoo! What good is a new toy, if ya can't play with it? :-D

 

Got my info today. Ironically, I'm at my niece's house on my ancient laptop to post this. LOL

Our friends at ANTEC pitched in a brand new SONATA III Enclosure complete with a 500W power supply
OCZ Technology pitched in one of their FATAL1TY Branded DDR2 800 Performance Memory Kits
ASUS stepped up and pitched in an ASUS P5N7A-VM Motherboard

Futurelooks provided the muscle and...
INTEL Q6600 Quad Core Socket 775 2.4 GHz CPU
Seagate 7200.10 250GB SATAII 7200RPM Hard Drive
LG DVD Writer
iSTAR Multi Card Reader
Windows XP Pro License
Office 2003 Professional License
Big helping of THANK YOU!

 

And the rest of the pics. The funny thing is, I'm being thanked with the system. I am absolutely beside myself with gratitude for the machine. This is, hands down, the best thing anyone has ever done for me...and all from a guy I've known casually on message boards for a few years and have been working for about 18 months, who I've never met. There are decent people in the world, and I must say Stephen Fung of Futurelooks/MEGATechNews is absolutely at the top of my list.

 

Okay, after seeing the hardware inside that thing, I am impressed. That is a beautiful thing to give someone. You owe this guy LOTS of home made cookies, along with a genuine "thank you!" letter.

Never doubt that there are good and decent people alive and well in this world. If nothing else because if you ever do, I'll have to confiscate that computer from you on general principle.

 

That's a pretty impressive gift there, Sgt.
~Yeah there still a few decent people around, they just don't get the publicity that all the bad stuff does, but they're there,. Glad you're a happy camper!:cool