{"id":433,"date":"2002-11-26T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-433.html"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:16:04","slug":"thoughts-on-new-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/26\/thoughts-on-new-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on new PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve decided on a set of components for upgrading my PC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Asus A7V8X motherboard.<\/b>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www17.tomshardware.com\/mainboard\/02q4\/021007\/kt400-04.html\">Good reviews<\/a>, excellent features (6 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x Firewire, Gigabit ethernet, on-board sound, et al.), and a nice price point (\u00a3100).<\/li>\n<li><b>AMD Athlon XP 2000+<\/b>.  Seems to offer the best price\/performance ratio in the range I&#8217;m looking at right now.<\/li>\n<li><b>512MB DDR 2100 memory.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietpc.com\/cases.php\">AcoustiCase ACC6606A quiet case.<\/a><\/b>  One of the things I don&#8217;t like about my current PC is that it&#8217;s really quite noisy.  I don&#8217;t notice it so much when I&#8217;m working away at it, but when I&#8217;m doing something else, like watching TV, the background noise is annoying.<\/li>\n<li><b>Matching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietpc.com\/psu.html\">ultra-quiet 300W PSU.<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietpc.com\/cpucool2.php#flower\">Zalman Flower Cooler<\/a> to keep the CPU cool &amp; quiet.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total cost looks like it would be around \u00a3450.  Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve decided on a set of components for upgrading my PC: Asus A7V8X motherboard. Good reviews, excellent features (6 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x Firewire, Gigabit ethernet, on-board sound, et al.), and a nice price point (\u00a3100). AMD Athlon XP 2000+. Seems to offer the best price\/performance ratio in the range I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/26\/thoughts-on-new-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on new PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}