2:30am

Posted by Mike - August 30, 2007 at 08:08:25 am

That’s roughly when I went to sleep last night after assembling my new computer and playing Bioshock on it. The assembly took roughly three hours and the OS and game installation took another two hours or so.

This was probably the smoothest hardware assembly I’ve ever done. Only had one hardware problem; I forgot to change the DVD-ROM to be the slave drive. Installing Vista was alright except I had the problem of it not having default drivers for the ethernet ports again. So I had to download them on the Mac and transfer. But after all of that I got a good 30 min of gameplay in. :)

I’ve got to say that the Antec P180B case I got is infinitely better than the other case I had. I should have taken pictures while I was assembling everything, but I’ll just throw out some highlights.

p180b_q.jpg

  1. The power supply is on the bottom. I always thought it was funny how the heaviest component in a PC was always placed at the top. This is way better.
  2. There is space behind the motherboard to route all of the power cables so they’re not hanging over it and getting in the way.
  3. The HDD slots have silicon pads for the drives to sit on so they’re quiet.
  4. The fans on the front of the case that suck air in have filters over them that you can easily clean. Brilliant!
  5. No crazy lights! I got over the whole clear case light-show pretty soon after I got my old case.

Maybe I’ll take a picture of what it looks like when I get back later tonight.

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  1. you played bioshock??? do we get to hear your review of it?

    Comment by Jen — August 30, 2007 #

  2. I played it that night and played something else last night. I’ll let you know what I think when I get further. :P

    Comment by Mike — August 31, 2007 #

  3. I might get a chance to play it tonight. If so, I’m going to harvest the little sisters like craaaaazy good.

    Comment by Jen — September 3, 2007 #

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