I’m in a terrible mood today. I got home all over excited ready to build my new machine. I installed the RAM and then went about installing the new graphics card. This is where things took a turn for the worse. It turns out that there are two types of PCI-Express slot. One has a tiny brown slot and the other is a huge beige one. The ML110 has one of the small brown slots.
Guess which type of slot the Radeon X800 needed?
So, I’ve got to decide what I’m going to do. I’m pretty sure I’m going to ebay the ML110 as I’ll probably get around £500-£600 for it with the 2GB of RAM. From there I’ll buy a new motherboard, processor, case and RAM and build a new machine.
The other option is to stick with the ML110, save some cash and buy the components to compliment my now redundant graphics card. That way I’ll be able to have my cake and eat it too.
Decisions, decisions.
On a slight tangent, I’m thinking about redesigning my site. Only thinking about it mind you, it may be months before anything actually gets done. I’d like a darker site, and It’ll make use of PNG’s. Apologies in advance to any IE people out there, but I’m not going to do all the time consuming javascript/activex hacks to make IE properly render an industry standard image format, so it may look pretty shite to you.
wedge | 08-Jul-05 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
Ya, IE needs to get on that. I know the feeling though. I have recently, on a whim just redone wedge13.com.
splee.blog » Back in Blighty | 08-Aug-05 at 11:02 am | Permalink
[...] I also mulled over the redesign of my blog which I mentioned a while ago and have what I think are the basics for the new layout. It’s going to be very summery, as I’m in that kind of mood at the moment, although it’s going to be simple enough that I will be able to switch it for autumn/winter/spring with a few deft changes to the CSS. [...]