Showing posts with label Basic Computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basic Computer. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

The Hardware

Unboxing
Box full of goodies
The engine I endeavour to create should be efficient, therefore I have bought pretty much the cheapest machine I could find.
This lead me to Novatech where I bought the most basic Isys V2 which has an Intel Celeron G530 processor which is 2.4GHz, dual core and 64bit. The memory with the computer is 2 x 2GB 1333MHz DDR3. Simplez.
Since I didn't want to use a monitor, I bought a graphics card in order to connect my computer to my HD TV. The graphics card in person is a Novatech GeForce 210. The last little add on was a Novatech 300Mbps 802.11n Wireless-N PCI Adapter. This all came to a grand total of just under £300, which isn't bad. It was delivered free two days later AND to top things off, when I opened the box, they had thrown in a keyboard and mouse.

Fitting the extra components was easy. Unscrew a few screws to take the side panel off. Rip out two of those back bracket things (feel free to leave the correct terminology as a comment below). Push the cards in and screw them to the case.
Graphics card installed
Graphics card fitted to the motherboard