MiGMan's Hardware (2000 - 2001)
2004 - AMD 2100
This is a picture of the
2006 - P4 3.0 GHz - Rigged for Silent Running -
but in it's earlier AMD incarnation it looked exactly the same, with a Green "AMD
inside" sticker instead of the shown "Intel inside". OK - and the "Powered by ASUS" sticker was absent.
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With the release of
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
it was time to bite the bullet and get some serious PC grunt happening - albeit on a modest budget.
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Case -
A Standard PC tower with 4 optical drive bays and 3 3.5" HDD bays.
As you will read in 2006 - P4 3.0 GHz - Rigged for Silent Running I have concluded that for many reasons the medium to large sized PC towers are the way to go.
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Motherboard -
Gigabyte
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RAM -
512 MEG
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Hard Drives -
1 x 30 GIG
1 x 120 GIG
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Optical Drives -
SONY DVD Player
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Floppy Drives -
1
Well - you never know when you are going to need one, and a large portion of the
Flight Sim Museum's physical collection uses floppy disk media so I still need to be able to access it.
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External Storage -
120 GIG USB 2.0 Drive
Coordinating the Flight Sim Museum archive had become a real pain using rewritable CD ROMs. The collection spanned a box full of disks. Now I could backup the archive painlessly - and quickly - to one device.
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Network -
PIC Network card connecting to the
Celeron 466 Mk II. Using a network in conjunction with HyperSnap-DX
enabled me to dump screen captures to the slower computer and use that computer to edit and publish them without having to quit the sim itself.
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Monitors -
2 x 17" - SAMSUNG and Mitsubishi. At about AUD $ 220.00 each that was equivalent to the cost of just one flat screen LCD - and for flight simming the CRT technology still delivers more contrast, better viewing angles and quicker response.
- Operating system -
Windows XP Home Edition
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