Buy My Motherboard!

It's an ECS G31T-M, Intel Socket LGA775 Motherboard, supporting Core 2 Duo and Quad, Celeron 4xx and Dual Core E21xx processors. It's got integrated video and HD sound, supports up to 4 SATAII 3.0GB/s devices, up to 4GB of DDR2 PC6400 RAM (supports Dual-Channel operation).

Win the auction and mention the blog and I'll throw in a COMPLETELY RANDOM SURPRISE GIFT! :)




**UPDATE**
MoBo has been sold and shipped! w00t.

New Look

It's similar, but kind of different - I realized that there were no links for comments with the old template, so I switched it up.

In other news, the new MediaPC is up and running (and has been for a little while, actually).

Specs:

• Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (not OC-ed)
• 2GB of DDR2 PC6400 from Crucial (it was ridiculously cheap at Fry's so I figured I'll upgrade when PC8500 drops in price)
• ASUS EAH3650 Silent Graphics w/ 512MB of DDR3
• Antec Sonata III Case with an EarthWatts 500W Power Supply
• Samsung SH-S202J IDE DVD±RW
• KWorld ATSC 120 HD TV Tuner Card
• Seagate 750GB SATA HD
• Vista Ultimate 32-Bit Edition

My MS contact couldn't swing a copy of XP MCE, so I went with Vista. I originally installed the 64-Bit edition (both are included when you buy Ultimate), but was running into a lot of Media Center stability issues, so I clean installed 32-Bit . . . after two 64-bit edition reformats/clean installs :)

I've still got an image of my Windows Partition just after installation of Windows and essential software for 64-bit, so if the drivers and support come up to speed, I might revert to that.

Next Upgrade: New TV! (but not for a while)

Paul Fong, stop sending me junk mail.

Paul Fong (Democratic candidate for the California State for Assembly) is mailing me entirely too much campaign material. I probably get something in the mail from his campaign every other day. It goes immediately into the shredder/recycle bin. I really didn't care about voting for State Assembly, but this assault on my mail box is impetus enough for me to vote against him.

Think of the trees, Paul Fong. Think of the trees.