Hawk's Babble-Log

Here, I’ve got pretty much everything ready to go in the case: new power supply, new motherboard with new CPU & RAM, old hard drive and old video card (just to make it work with something). Additionally, I put in both red cold cathodes.

Yet another view of the new cool game machine goodness. You can see the red cold cathodes fixed to the front and bottom of the case. The power box is right next to the one on the bottom, near center, right next to the speaker. This power box powers both cold cathodes.

Here, my new game machine is plugged in, but not yet powered up. Still, the thing has glowing power and reset buttons right on the motherboard! Is that cool or what? I don’t even need to plug it in to a case to turn it on! I love this mobo!

Life! This is a comparison shot between my linux server (green) and the new gaming machine (red). Yes, the linux server was always intended to be green. And yes, the game machine was always intended to be RED. It’s designed for destruction, after all! Destruction of my enemies (both AI and human alike). Muaa aah aaahhh! (evil laugh)

Neither case has the left-side panel installed at this time. The fans are blue because that’s the only option with this case, so I’ll have to get some green and red fans later on.

You may also notice the new high-speed gaming RAM has two little rows of lights on ‘em, red and green! I didn’t even know this when I got it. It’s so cool , they change and flicker with activity! Yes, I also put in a DVD burner drive; how else will I install all my games?

I use the motherboard box to store all the miscellaneous stuff such as cables, adaptors, manuals, screws, unused hardware, etc., when putting together a new system.

Next: New, kick-ass video card.