| Name: | Boulder |
| Type: | Desktop |
| Base Model: | Packard Bell® iMedia W1607 |
| Manufactured by: | Packard Bell B.V. |
| Modifications by: | Robin Ramsak & EverGlade Electronics |
About Boulder:
As I am a perfectionist I tend to spend ridiculous amounts of time on "trivial" things like deciding what computer I would buy, I looked up different brands and models every week for half a year before I finally decided that I would buy the Packard Bell iMedia W1607, it wasn't the best system out there and I could afford a better one if I wanted but I really liked this little gray box of circuits I was like when you find a beat up car and the only thing you can think about is "What would it be like to fix that old heap of junk and make it run like a blast?" It was the same for me I wanted to see how much performance I could juice out of this inferior system with its yummy Intel quad core (which was really the only high-end thing in this computer and almost the sole reason that I bought this system), I have spent a year and a half tweaking every little setting to my personal liking so its become hard for me to buy a new system because this is one is familiar like a old pair of pants. I will just stick with this one and upgrade it untill it decides to leave for computer heaven because I will never throw out a computer, the proof being my old computers, especially the Amiga which is the same that we had since before I was born and my old personal computer the Compaq Presario 8075EA.
System Specifications:
| Case: | NZXT™ Lexa S |
| Power supply: | Corsair® VX 540W PSU ATX |
| Motherboard: | Packard Bell® Clara Motherboard |
| Chipset: | Intel® G33 |
| Central Processing Unit (CPU): | Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 (Kentsfield) @ 2,4GHz Quad Core |
| Random-Access Memory (RAM): | 3 x 1024MB (3072MB total) PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM @ 667MHz (CL5) with Akasa® Aluminium Heatsinks 2 |
| Graphics Card: | Nvidia® GeForce® GT 240 PhysX® CUDA 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM, 585MHz |
| Audio: | Realtek™ ALC 888 3 |
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| Drives: | DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive |
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Will be added shortly.
Here I list the upgrades I have planned to buy in the near future.
I will later write a long term upgrade list.
| Random-Access Memory | 1 2 x Corsair® Dominator TWIN2X PC8500 (2048MB x 2 total 4096MB) DDR2 SDRAM @ 1066MHz |
| Audio | 2 Creative® SoundBlaster™ X-Fi Titanium |
Long Term Upgrade List:
- Motherboard
- Two new screens
- New CPU
- Watercooling
My collection of old, extra or spare parts.
| Case: | Packard Bell® Zeus |
| Power supply: | FSP Group® FSP250-60HEN (115 Watt) |
| Graphics Card: | Nvidia® GeForce® 8600GS (Defect) |
| Audio: | Creative® SoundBlaster™ 5.1! Live Digital (Not Compatible with Vista) |
