Comments | alchemy: Procionred's overhaul

alchemy

Procionred's overhaul

Jun 21, 2003 00:49

Replaced old/busted case with l33t Antec Sonata.It's an utterly fantastic case. Well-designed, fantastic finish, no sharp edges, beautiful drive mounting system with screw-on drive rails and rubber-dampened HDD trays, ultra-quiet 380W power source, dedicated variable-voltage Molex connectors for rubber-dampened case fans, sliding/locking side door ( Read more... )

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silverhand June 21 2003, 02:54:10 UTC

Had bad experience with Kingston. Make sure you know the warranty info.

punkbiatch June 21 2003, 08:04:47 UTC

That's a pretty sexy case. What's eliptical shiny underneath the drive bays?

Here's some benchmarks for the Kingston stick you've purchased :

SiSoft Sandra 2001 Benchmark Results

Memory Benchmark (FSB/Memory)

1. Integer ALU - 256MB Kingston PC2700 (166/333 MHz) 2549 MB/s
2. Integer ALU - 256MB Kingston PC2700 (205/410 MHz) 2914 MB/s
3. Float FPU - 256MB Kingston PC2700 (166/333 MHz) 2384 MB/s
4. Float FPU - 256MB Kingston PC2700 (205/410 MHz) 2633 MB/s

3DMark2001 SE Default Benchmark Results

Memory (FSB/Memory) 3DMarks

1. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (166/333 MHz) 11245
2. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (205/410 MHz) 11615

Quake III Arena Fastest demo001

Memory (FSB/Memory) FPS

1. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (166/333 MHz) 286.5
2. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (205/410 MHz) 305.6

Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo

Memory (FSB/Memory) FPS

1. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (166/333 MHz) 83
2. 256MB Kingston PC2700 (205/410 MHz) 88

Maybe silver just bought a bad stick?

alchemy June 21 2003, 12:29:22 UTC

The shiny thing is a slide-open front cluster for two USB ports, one Firewire, and headphone/microphone ports. I haven't hooked any of them up yet, since I've never used a front-mounted device port before.

The two clear hemispheres on either side glow a warm blue when the computer is on. I might disconnect them if they get distracting, but they look damn cool right now.

-J