| Editorial Twenty-Seven: Where's
the Any Key?
The Geekified will most certainly want to hear how we just upgraded into a lean, mean, graphics-makin'
machine here at Toshi Station.
Check the crazy specs:
| $199.00 |
K7 800mhz
Athlon Thunderbird (+heatsink)
What's the Word? Thunderbird! Hummin' along with that
full-speed on-die L2 cache, mister. Puts her Pentium
III counterpart t'shame.
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| $149.00 |
ASUS A7V Motherboard
Socket A style, sportin' the KX133 chipset and features
to spare - including a plethora of front-side bus
overclocking options. |
| $309.00 |
Single stick o' 256MB PC133
SDRAM
There I was, poundin' away at some heavy-duty
imagery, when Photoshop stops and asks, nay, demands
that I feed her more RAM. Then she slapped me and
called me Nancy.
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| $229.00 |
ASUS AGP-V6800 GeForce256 DDR 32MB Graphics Accelerator
NVIDIA's GPU offers up 350MHz RAMDAC, 256-bit Data
transfer bandwidth, and 480 million bilinear filtered,
multi-textured pixels - Castle Wolfenstein never
looked better. |
| $119.00 |
Western Digital 20gig 7200RPM hard drive
Mad RPMs, yo. |
| $99.00 |
SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer soundcard
Digital Out. 'Nuff said. |
| $24.99 |
NetGear FA311 Ethernet Network Card
For the beefy cable modem.
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$146.00 |
Pioneer 10X/40X DVD player
DVD, the Natural Choice. |
| $59.99 |
REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-2 Playback
Card
My momma always tol me, "Pumpkin, you cain't beat hardware DVD playback" |
| $15.00 |
1.44 Floppy drive
Almost not worth bothering with... |
| $75.00 |
Full-tower ATX Super Case w/ 300watt Power
Supply
Super tall, super spacious, 4 super-cool wheels. |
|
$10.00 |
2 Case Fans
Behold the cooling power of frosty gale-force winds. |
|
$399.00 |
ViewSonic P810 21" Monitor
Dirt cheap refurb - nice price, amazing picture. |
| $29.99 |
Digital Research 4-Port Self-Powered USB Hub
Just a hub, bub. |
| $59.99 |
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Complete with all-seeing optic eye technology and a
tail light. No better mouse on the market. |
|
$119.00 |
Belkin Gold Series 350VA UPS Battery Backup
Bring down the lightning. |
Particularly happy with that beast of a monitor. Also
m'first 3-D graphics card, which is kinda cool. Hard to believe that some day this will all be as valuable
as a bag of dirt. Ah, technology.
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