My Office Setup

When we moved house at the start of December 2007, everything from my old home office was packed in boxes and dumped in my new shiny study. At the time I just broke out what I needed to get me back online and left the rest in its boxes!

Shift forward a year and pretty much it was still the same, save the odd search through boxes for a stapler, envelopes etc.

I had finally ordered a new PC as my old faithful DELL was making strange grinding noises regularly and trying to run GTalk on it was like communicating with someone en-route to Saturn. 

So at the weekend I picked up my new PC from Happy (who’d ordered all the bits and stuck it all together). I decided to finally gut out /un-box my office/study on Monday to celebrate the arrival of new PC, otherwise it just wouldn’t fit!

Here’s the new set up! It’s very tempting to try some gaming, but I’m trying my best to avoid!

Still need to sort out all the wiring, but it’s a much nicer workspace now. Having the three monitors makes a huge difference, with everything easily viewable in an instant.

Centre screen is whatever I’m currently working on; left screen is both my Gmail accounts (one in Chrome, the other in Firefox) and FTP client is usually there too; right screen is all my other “comms” – Gtalk, Messenger, TweetDeck, RSS Feeder.

The white boxes under the monitors – router on the left, Time Capsule on the right.

My old DELL is now the media server for the house, running iTunes for our AppleTV. More on that another time!

For the geeks, here’s the new PC details -

• Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 HyperX Memory Non-ECC CL5 – Qty: 1
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 2.7GHz Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Retail Boxed Processor – Qty: 1
• Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Socket AM2 Nvidia MCP55P PCI-E 8 Channel audio ATX Motherboard – Qty: 1
• Samsung HD753LJ 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm *32MB Cache* – OEM – Qty: 1
• Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Mid Tower Case – With 500W EarthWatts PSU – Qty: 1
• XFX 9800GT XXX Edition 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card – Qty: 2
• Sony DRU-190A 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM IDE internal – Retail With Multi Bezel & Nero – Qty: 1
• Samsung SM2243BW 22″ TFT Monitor 1680x 8000:1 300cd/m2 5ms Response H/Adjust VGA/DVI Silver 3 Years On-Site Warranty – Qty: 3
• Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 – USB – Qty: 1
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate w/SP1 – Complete package – 1 PC – DVD – English International – Qty: 1

all from ebuyer.com

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