New computer in the house

After 5 years of being a Macintosh user and owner, I purchesed the parts to make my own x86 system. I did it to play the odd Windows-only game (CoD2 and the upcoming Spore) as well as for working on OpenSolaris.

It’s a Athlon64 3200 CPU, 1GB of Corsair RAM, and a GeForce 6600 on a Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard in a mico-ATX package (case by Antec).

So far I’ve enjoyed it. It compiled Solaris Nevada build 34 in 2 hours, 7 minutes and plays CoD2 really well on my 20″ Apple Cinema Display.

 Here’s some system detail courtesy of CPU-Z:

CPU-Z Report

CPU-Z version 1.32.1.

CPU(s) &nbsp Number of CPUs 1

Name AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Code Name Venice Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Family / Model / Stepping F F 2 Extended Family / Model F 2F Brand ID 4 Package Socket 939 Core Stepping DH-E6 Technology 90 nm Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 CPU Clock Speed 2009.1 MHz Clock multiplier x 10.0 HTT Bus Frequency 200.9 MHz L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Speed 2009.1 MHz (Full) L2 Location On Chip L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes L2 Bus Width 128 bits

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Mainboard and chipset &nbsp Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. Motherboard model A8N-VM CSM, Rev 1.xx BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc. BIOS revision 0702 BIOS release date 01/17/2006 Chipset nVidia GeForce 6100/6150 rev. A2 Southbridge nVidia nForce 410/430 MCP rev. A2 Sensor chip Winbond W83627EHF

Graphic Interface PCI-Express PCI-E Link Width x16 PCI-E Max Link Width x16

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Memory &nbsp DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM DRAM Size 1024 MBytes DRAM Frequency 200.9 MHz FSB:DRAM CPU/10 CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks RAS# Precharge 3 clocks Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 12 clocks DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks # of memory modules 2 Module 0 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 – 512 MBytes Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 – 512 MBytes

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Software &nbsp Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) DirectX version 9.0c