In Forum: About You, Me and Everything Inbetween
By User: PTL
DESKTOP: Gloire-CISC
Core 2 Quad Q6600
8GB of DDR3 1066
nVidia GTX 260 Core 216
750gb Hard Drive
Windows 8 Pro x64
Entering it's 6th year of service this year! This box has survived motherboard failure, sucky cases, Windows Vista and innumerable other things with flying colors.
Named after the final boss of the MS-DOS game Silpheed. Also, x64 is a CISC architecture.
TABLET: Gloire-RISC
Microsoft Surface RT 32gb w/Smart Cover
Same as Gloire, but ARM is RISC. It inherits the Gloire name because Windows RT is surprisingly similar to desktop 8 without the issues Windows 7 had on the CrapTop when it ran it.
CURRENT HTPC: The CrapTop
The HP Tx2 i alluded to a while back in the 'Worst Computer Experiences' thread, was my main laptop before it got too unstable for that sort of use.
4gb of DDR2 Something-or-another
Turion 2 Dual-Core
Linux Mint 13 w/XBMC
250gb Storage
Dying GPU
This machine is terrible, and a stopgap until Piz Gloria is completed.
HTPC-TO-BE: Piz Gloria
4gb of DDR3 (tenative, don't have this part yet)
AMD A4-3400 APU
500gb Storage (Tentative once again, will be finalized when i order the Hard Drive)
AsRock A75M-ITX
Ubuntu Linux with XBMC and possibly Steam For Linux
Windows 8, Steam Big Picture and XBMC once i've upgraded it to it's fullest
Named after the Swiss Restaurant that features heavily in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, alluding to the video-centric usage. I do not get cable in my room which is more or less why the box is necessary...
Target Price: Sub-$500 for the basic config.
By User: PTL
DESKTOP: Gloire-CISC
Core 2 Quad Q6600
8GB of DDR3 1066
nVidia GTX 260 Core 216
750gb Hard Drive
Windows 8 Pro x64
Entering it's 6th year of service this year! This box has survived motherboard failure, sucky cases, Windows Vista and innumerable other things with flying colors.
Named after the final boss of the MS-DOS game Silpheed. Also, x64 is a CISC architecture.
TABLET: Gloire-RISC
Microsoft Surface RT 32gb w/Smart Cover
Same as Gloire, but ARM is RISC. It inherits the Gloire name because Windows RT is surprisingly similar to desktop 8 without the issues Windows 7 had on the CrapTop when it ran it.
CURRENT HTPC: The CrapTop
The HP Tx2 i alluded to a while back in the 'Worst Computer Experiences' thread, was my main laptop before it got too unstable for that sort of use.
4gb of DDR2 Something-or-another
Turion 2 Dual-Core
Linux Mint 13 w/XBMC
250gb Storage
Dying GPU
This machine is terrible, and a stopgap until Piz Gloria is completed.
HTPC-TO-BE: Piz Gloria
4gb of DDR3 (tenative, don't have this part yet)
AMD A4-3400 APU
500gb Storage (Tentative once again, will be finalized when i order the Hard Drive)
AsRock A75M-ITX
Ubuntu Linux with XBMC and possibly Steam For Linux
Windows 8, Steam Big Picture and XBMC once i've upgraded it to it's fullest
Named after the Swiss Restaurant that features heavily in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, alluding to the video-centric usage. I do not get cable in my room which is more or less why the box is necessary...
Target Price: Sub-$500 for the basic config.