It's so blue!

[elfs]

The Beast

The New Beast doesn't have a name (and no, I'm not naming it "Beast," no matter how blue it is) but you have to admit, that is a lot of blue. All of the fans, including the power supply, have Blue LEDs installed. It makes a creepy honeycomb image across the wall when it's powered up.

I'm really unhappy with the cabling job. It's still a mess, although it's much, much better than the eight-IDE drive creature I used to have. The gold IDE cable I pulled out of the old one to run the DVD drive here is an ugly stand-out, although it's prettier than an ordinary ribbon cable. And both the CPU and the video card needed their own power supplies, independent of what was supplied to the motherboard-- that was new to me.

And while I was worried at the start about the cooler mount, I seem to have been concerned about nothing. Although I haven't powered up all four cores and the video card at the same time, running all four cores full out in a software build (it's Gentoo, a Linux-from-Scratch variant) barely pushed the machine above 50C.

Comments

[oldhans117.livejournal.com]

Cables are always a mess to deal with, my new systems is on a UPS truck driving around the backwoods of Mississippi but soon I will have real power.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I would love a computer like that, only with Borg Green instead of blue. Borg Green is one of my favorite colors.