BIG change to talk about — I built a new computer!

My fiance’s computer has been seemingly dying a slow death recently, so I decided it was time to build a new one to replace it, and include it in my family of computers. The new computer’s name is Clementine, and you can read all of the detailed specs here. You can also see images and commentary from the building process by going here.

As a quick summary, this computer is centered around an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ processor — dual core and quite powerful, but also very reasonably priced. We’ve got a great Asus M2N motherboard, and a fanless, silent, EVGA GeForce 7100GS video card. The card is not super powerful, but this computer will not be used for gaming at all, so sound level of the card (and computer in general) was more important than power. And at any rate, this card is still quite capable for simple 3D tasks and even high-end games from a couple of years ago.

Two SATA Seagate hard drives, totalling 240GB of space, and a Plextor DVD burner. Also, we’ve got a Logitech LX710 cordless desktop set (same as in Fozzie, excellent set!), a completely silent Enermax case fan, and the 15-inch Samsung LCD that was previously used on Fozzie. Check out the specs, it’s a pretty decent machine for general tasks, with a lot of room to grow.

Also, at the same time, I remove the StarLogic floppy drive from Fozzie, and instead bought a NEC USB floppy drive, which I’ll share amongst the three computers I have here (Fozzie, Camilla, and Clementine, none of which have built-in floppy drives). Floppy disks are used so infrequently nowadays, I felt it was better to not build a drive into every computer, and instead just share a USB drive. However, I took this StarLogic drive, and installed it in Waldorf. Waldorf is not physically located here, so would not benefit from my USB floppy drive. Also, the floppy drive that was previously in Waldorf did not work, so this gives Waldorf a functioning drive at least.

So, we welcome Clementine to the Greg Leedberg family of computers!

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