My Computers - Garfield - Swiss Army Knife
This was my "everything else" computer. I would do my code, my web browsing, my email, my tinkering all here. This baby was built like a Tank. Don't mess with this fat kitty. Garfield was a near exact clone of my office computer. This made tele-commuting painless.
I retired Garfield in 2016 when the power supply in my server "Sonic" blew out. I made the decision to merge the two machines into one, combining the serving and workstation duties into one be-all/end-all Linux box. At that time I upgraded the HDD to 3TB so Plex had more room to store my DVR recordings.
- 2016-03-25 - Ver 5.0 - cpu: Intel i5 3570 3.4GHz Quad, video: GeForce GT 640
- Mobo MSI ZH77A-G43 ATX motherboard (LGA1155, Intel H77)
- CPU Intel i5 3570 [22nm Ivy Bridge Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 6 MB L1 cache]
- RAM 16.0 GB of GSkill DDR3 1600 RAM (4x 4GB)
- GPU Zotac GeForce GT 640 [2 GB, 384 Shader Cores, 900MHz Core / 1800Mhz Shader] (PCIe 3.0 16x)
- Storage 250 GB Samsung 840 SATAIII SSD
- DVD DVD-RW
- Audio Realtek ALC892 8 channel audio chip
- Case Antec Sonata III ATX
- PSU Antec 500W
- OS Debian Linux (latest stable ver)
- 2012-11-22 - Ver 4.1 - cpu: Intel Core2 Quad 2.83 Ghz, video: GeForce GT 640
- Mobo Asus P5QL-VM mATX motherboard (LGA 775, Intel B43)
- CPU Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 [2.83GHz, 1066 Mhz FSB, 6 Mb L1 cache]
- RAM 4.0 GB of GSkill DDR2 800 RAM (4x 2GB)
- GPU Zotac GeForce GT 640 [2 GB, 384 Shader Cores, 900MHz Core / 1800Mhz Shader] (PCIe 3.0 16x)
- Storage 1.0 TB Western Digital SATAII HDD
- DVD Sony DVD Dual Layer Burner
- Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Case Antec Sonata III ATX
- PSU Antec 500W
- OS Linux Mint (latest stable ver)
- 2010-11-03 - Ver 4.0 - cpu: Intel Core2 Quad 2.83 Ghz, video: GeForce GT 640
- Mobo Asus P5QL-VM mATX motherboard (LGA 775, Intel B43)
- CPU Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 [2.83GHz, 1066 Mhz FSB, 6 Mb L1 cache]
- RAM 4.0 GB of GSkill DDR2 800 RAM (4x 2GB)
- GPU BFG nVidia GeForce 9800 GT [512 MB] (PCIe 16x)
- Storage 1.0 TB Western Digital SATAII HDD
- DVD Sony DVD Dual Layer Burner
- Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Case Antec Sonata III ATX
- PSU Antec 500W
- OS Ubuntu Linux (latest stable ver)
- 2005-09-28 - Ver 3.0 - cpu: Intel 3.2 GHz P4, video: GeForce 6800
- Mobo MSI ATX
- CPU Intel 3.2 GHz CPU (Prescott) [800 Mhz FSB, 1 meg L1 cache]
- RAM 1.5 gigabytes of DDR 400 RAM
- GPU eVGA nVidia GeForce 6800 [128 MB] (AGP 8x)
- Storage 120 GB IDE (DMA133) HDD
- DVD Pioneer 16x DVD (slot)
- CD iomega 8x4x32 CD-RW
- Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Case Enlight MID ATX
- PSU Enlight 340W
- OS Ubuntu Linux (latest stable ver)
- 2004-02-15 - Ver 2.0 - cpu: Intel 2.4 GHz P4, video: GeForce 5500
- Mobo MSI ATX
- CPU Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz CPU
- RAM 512 Mb of DDR RAM
- GPU nVidia GeForce 5500 [128 MB] (AGP 4x)
- Storage 250 GB Western Digital IDE HDD
- DVD Pioneer 16x DVD (slot)
- Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Case Enlight MID ATX
- PSU Enlight 340W
- OS Red Hat Fedora Core 2
- 2003-06-20 - Ver 1.0 - cpu: Intel 800MHz P3, video: 3Dfx VooDoo 5
- Mobo Abit BX6 2.0 ATX
- CPU Intel Pentium 3 800MHz CPU
- RAM 512 Mb of DDR RAM
- GPU 3Dfx VooDoo 5 [32 MB] (AGP 2x)
- Storage 80 GB Western Digital IDE HDD
- DVD Pioneer 16x DVD (slot)
- Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Case Enlight MID ATX
- PSU Enlight 340W
- OS Red Hat 6.0