It’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present the specs for Yggdrasil Mark I, which miraculously powered up and worked even though I put it together myself:
Case: Generic black case from Stone Computer (local retailer)
Motherboard: Asus P4S533-X from AJump (I had to have an Asus)
Processor: Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz from Googlegear
Memory: 512MB Kingston PC2700 RAM from NewEgg.com
Hard Drive: Maxtor 120GB UltraATA/133 HD from Best Buy
Floppy Drive: Panasonic Black 3.5″ Floppy from NewEgg.com
CD/DVD Drive: Samsung SM-348B DVD/CDRW combo drive from Best Buy
Graphics card: PNY GeForce 4 64MB DDR 4xAGP graphics card from Tiger Direct (hey, it was $20, okay?)
Sound card: On motherboard (I’ll pick up an Audigy 2 here soon)
NIC: On motherboard
Keyboard: OnLite Black Keyboard from Stone Computer
Mouse: IBM Black Optical Mouse from Best Buy
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional from UT (gotta love student discounts)
Office Suite: Microsoft Office XP Professional from UT
The CPU is really limiting me right now, but the motherboard supports up to 3.06GHz with a 533MHz FSB, plus it supports Hyper-Threading, so once the 3.06 gets down in price, I can put it in, in place of the Celeron, and basically have a whole new computer on the spot.
The only thing I don’t have yet is a modem, but I’ll pick one up in a couple of days; I’ll be installing software for the next couple of days anyway, plus I did some work for my father this weekend for the modem money.
Eventually I’ll put Linux on the machine, but for now I just want to get my Windows configuration finalized. For those in the know on these things: I know that it’s usually best to partition FAT32 drives to 8 GB or less due to cluster sizes, but is that a problem with NTFS?