As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’ve been on something of a hardware kick lately. (though realistically, when am I not?) The guys over at [H]ard|OCP have a rave review of the new ASUS SK8V motherboard. From the looks of it, this is the board to get if you’re building a new hot-rod gaming machine. This board supports the AthlonFX51 flavor of AMD’s high-powered 64-bit line of processors. Very nice indeed 🙂

New Pics
I finally got my new digital camera, and to break it in, I took some new shots of my machine to replace the low-res ones I took with the webcam. Check ’em out if you’re interested.

Hey, maybe this keeping my site up-to-date thing will last? Hey, stranger things have happened.

Case Pics
Well, I promised pics of my gaming machine, so here they are in all their crappy webcam quality.. Hey, I said I’d put up pics. I didn’t say they’d be good. 😉

(from left to right) This is it. I haven’t come up with a cool name for it yet, but on the network it goes by “Conrad.” (2) That’s the CoolerMaster Aerogate II fan controller/temp monitor unit on top. It’s cheap and does quite a good job. (I’ll probably be removing the faceplates to my drives for painting soon.) The last 2 pics show my little atari sticker and the popular TicTac mod. I put the sticker on there partly for decoration, and partly because it’s associated with my favorite game. (UT2003) The TicTac mod is something I came up with to hook-up the front-panel audio on my motherboard to the cheesy connectors that came with my case. 1 TicTac box, a ribbon cable from an old gameport connector, $5 in parts from Radio Shack and voila!