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In my previous blog post I mentioned I would post some pictures taken during assembling my new PC. Here they are, hit the jump to see them. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks ago I finally bought a new PC, and I love it
It’s a nice:

• Intel i7-2600k
• 16 GB Corsair Vengeance memory
• Intel 510 SSD (120GB)
• 2 x 2TB WD RE4 drives in mirroring RAID
• be quiet Dark Power Pro PSU (really quiet PSU)
• Antec Solo (a rather silent case, including some sound damping materials)
• triple monitors

I must say, it’s very very fast, especially thanks to the SSD. The 16GB RAM come in handy for running virtual machines
Once you’ve worked on a system with an SSD as system drive, you simply don’t want to go back to using mechanical drives as system drive…