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Old 4th Sep 2003, 02:11
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Mac the Knife

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Cool My new toy

Falcon ATX Midi Tower P4 300w PSU
MSI K7N2 Delta-LISR Motherboard - (400 FSB)
AMD 2500+ XP Barton Processor (512k cache)
512k DDR PC-3200 RAM
M$ Optical Mouse
M$ Windows XP Professional
Matrox P650 DualHead 64MB
LG 52x24x52 Internal IDE CD-ReWriter
120GB & 40GB Western Digital Hard Drives 7200rpm (8mb cache)

and from the old setup:
Avant Stellar keyboard (best keyboards ever, fully mechanical keys that fight back).
2 x LG Studioworks 700S monitors
LG Combo DVD/CDR/W (good bit of kit)

Goes like sh!t off a shovel. The Matrox P640 is far from being a games stunner, but I don't do much gaming. The image quality is stunning with 10-bit Gigacolor and rock steady - I do a lot of image processing so this is important. Direct-X doesn't pass the Direct-X diagnostics (system crashes on Direct 3D tests), but hopefully downloading the latest driver from Matrox will cure this. Anyway, now to spend the next week tweaking it and stuffing all the s/w into it.

Thanks to Richard for pointing me at the MSI Delta LISR - superb mobo, only complaint is that there is only one fan connector.
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