Black Manticore

[MyHW] Ayanami

by lunarg on January 27th 2008, at 22:45

function

My new computer for school, later moved on to strictly games and entertainment.

manufacturer

Built by JCM Concepts.

named after

Named after Rei Ayanami, a character of the Japanese anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

date of commissioning

Juli 2002

retired on

January 2008

last current system specs

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (@ 1733 Mhz) ; MOBO: MSI Via KT3 333 Ultra-ARU ; RAM: 1 GB DDR-333 ; Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB DDR BBA ; Audio: Creative SB Audigy ; HDD: Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA133 on 3ware 7006 RAID controller ; CD/DVD/BD: LiteOn DVD-ROM 16x48x, Plextor PlexWriter CD-RW 48x24x48x ; OS: Windows XP, later: Gentoo Linux

the story

With Misato being a bit outdated, it was time for a new computer. It was basically bought for a bit of gaming, although I also did some school work on it whenever I was not away.

It originally had 512 MB RAM on board, which was later expanded to 1 GB.
At first, it inherited the ATI Radeon 8500 from Misato, but that card broke down, and was replaced by a ATI Radeon Pro 9800, which really lifted up gaming to a new level: games such as Far Cry and Half-Life 2 never looked better.

With the purchase of Sakura, it replaced Misato as my development and multi-purpose linux server. A bit more later, when my brother moved out, and my equipment moved to my room, I purchased a TV tuner for it, and it became my media center, running MythTV on Gentoo Linux. That role got replaced by Tsuruya, and was thus retired.