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Processor | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V) |
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Motherboard | Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430 |
Cooling | Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU |
Memory | 2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600 |
Storage | WD 160 GB SATA hard drive. |
Display(s) | Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900 |
Case | Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window). |
Audio Device(s) | Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers). |
Power Supply | ThermalTake 430W TR2 |
Software | XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1. |
As flash storage technology continues to get more advanced, and as laptops begin to use flash as their main method of storage, hard drive manufacterers are beginning to get creative to keep their sales. Starting last year, perpendicualr hard drive technology has allowed the density, and space, of new hard drives to increase by roughly 50% a year. However, if drives continue gaining density at this rate, they could eventually become dense enough to magnetize and erase themselves at room temperature. While we won't have to worry about this for a few years, it is definitely a concern. And so, Seagate and Hitachi have come up with solutions to this problem. Seagate is going to begin implementing "heat assisted technology", which adds the heating of the hard drive platters to the recording process. Hitachi will use "patterned media", which is a reorganization of the recording platters in a hard drive.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
View at TechPowerUp Main Site