{"id":237,"date":"2007-06-28T02:14:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/bliggidy-black\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T02:16:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:16:44","slug":"bliggidy-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/bliggidy-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Bliggidy Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new computer is finally complete and resplendent in bliggidy black y’all!<\/p>\n

Gone are the days of beige! Shiny new Logitech Z-10 speakers arrived today to complete the panoramic beauty of my desktop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Widescreen<\/a><\/p>\n

They’re gorgeous! and sound awesome too! They’ve even got a little LED panel in on them, so when I’m playing music it shows up the track info on the speaker!! and it’s got play\/pause fast-forward\/rewind and skip track touch sensitive buttons all on the speakers! Tres coolio! Definitely the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance of my 20″ widescreen desktop. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Motherboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside the case the shiny looking goodness continues \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

For the techies who care, it’s a 2.4Ghz Intel Core2Duo with 4Gig of PC2-8500 DDR2 1066Mhz RAM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I built my new computer with two things in mind #1 was Photoshop. I wanted my new computer to eat 50meg tiff images for breakfast and #2 was silence. My old computer buzzed and rattled like crazy and it drove me mental. This new computer is totally silent! The motherboard has a heat pipe cooled chipset, the ram is heat piped and the case is a Arctic Cooling T1 Pro Silentium.. See their clever use of word play there \ud83d\ude09 It’s an awesome case. Shiny black and all the fans have little rubber shock absorbers, so it’s totally silent I love it!<\/p>\n

In my quest for silence, I missed one thing.. the graphics card. The fan on the graphics card that I got was crazy noisy! So I ordered a ZeroTherm GX815 cooler for it. It arrived today. Now what I wasn’t expecting when I turned it on was the fact that it’d look like this:<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

How cool is that!?! It’s got blue LEDs inside it! Why, I have no idea! I’ve seen some case mods on the net where you can stick a transparent side panel on your computer.. but that seems a bit chavy to me. I must admit, the cooler is a tad on the enormous side! It’s supposed to cool super high end graphics cards, so it does dwarf my little graphics card a bit..But still.. it’s pretty, isn’t it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new computer is finally complete and resplendent in bliggidy black y’all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-shiny-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}