an ODE to Wintermute

I'm writing this to say that I really like my new ODE 4 machine that I bought back in December 2011.  Now that I've put it through its paces for a while, I can give a more reliable review.  It performs very well and boots very fast due to the SSD in it.  It's just plain old-fashioned very snappy, the fastest I've ever seen a computer run, in fact.  It runs games with ease, it does everything I want a computer to do with a total absence of problems.  The only issue would be the fan noise, but that's a small compromise for me.

Recently, I casually installed the latest version of Ventrillo to chat with some guildmates on WoW while the game was running.  My ODE 4 didn't even break a sweat, just installed it in seconds, I inputted the information listed on the guild info tab, and voilá, I was in like Flynn!  Having two 24" monitors helped make it all very casual, very fast.  What a far cry from even three years ago with one monitor and a four-core computer with an old 8800 nVidia card!

It can do a lot of stuff at the same time without any hiccups or herky-jerky scrolling of web pages.  Compiling C# with Visual Studio Express, playing games, updating some spreadsheets, and many other things are done at the same time.  An amazing machine this ODE is!  And with a sexy looking chassis, too.  Finally, one that is not yet another Sovietized black clone of all the rest.  Way back in the day, they were all beige.  Nowadays, black seems to be the new beige, lol.

To honor this machine, I've christened it Wintermute.  Those of you who know what it means will no doubt smile in amusement.  Those of you who don't, I recommend Google or Bing or your search engine of choice.  I'm old enough to remember how our world was before the advent of today's ubiquitous desktop computers, in which even the weakest ones are ten times more powerful than the fabled Cray supercomputers of 1970's.  Even though we had computers back then, access to them was very restricted.  Computer programmers and such were conferred almost godlike status.  They were the oracles of information that lay in the databases.  It was a far different world back then where a "search" required an all-day trip to the library with paper and pencil in tow.

But I digress.  I just wanted to thank you guys at Digital Storm for an excellent machine that makes my computing experience a very fluid and casual one in my everyday life.  Accolades to the staff and everyone there!

ODE Level 4
CPU: Intel Core i7 3930k
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance
GPU: 3x SLI Nvidia 570
PSU: 1050W Corsair Pro Silver
Mobo: Asus P9x79 Sabretooth
SSD: 120GB Corair GT
HDD: 1TB Hitachi/Seagate 7200RPM
Case: Graphite Series 600T

Here's the link:  http://photobucket.com/Wintermute

Enjoy!

Congrats! 

Happy to hear that the first month or so has been great, here's to many more!

Nice picks Congrats