Hardware

I’m a bit of an electronics hardware junky. Here’s all my stuff.

Desktop Box

  • Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad Processor @ 2.4 GHz (overclocks to 3.6 GHz)
  • Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink and fan
  • ASUS P5Q-Pro Intel P45 motherboard
  • 4 x 4GB OCZ DDR2-800 memory modules (16GB total)
  • ATI 5850 video card
  • Antec Neo 650 Watt power supply unit
  • 36GB 10krpm Western Digital Raptor hard disk drive
  • 128GB OCZ Vertex SSD
  • Pioneer 20x DVD-RW optical drive
  • Antec Nine Hundred case
  • 30″ Dell 3008WFP LCD monitor
  • Logitech G15 keyboard
  • Logitech G5 mouse
  • Sennheiser HD25 professional monitoring headphones
  • HHb Circle 3 active monitor speakers
  • M-Audio Midisport 2×2 MIDI controller
  • Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer soundcard
  • Ubuntu Linux 64-bit
  • Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Game Consoles

  • Nintendo Wii
  • Sony Playstation 3

HIFI

  • Samsung PS50P91FDX 1080p 50″ plasma television
  • Yamaha RX-V359 audio visual receiver
  • Wharfedale XARUS XR-1000 bookshelf speakers
  • Miller and Kreisel Sound V-75 II powered subwoofer

MIDI Keyboards

  • Roland EXR-3

Storage Box

  • AMD Phenom II @ 1 GHz (underclocked and undervolted)
  • 1GB Corsair Value Select DDR2-800 memory module
  • 1 x 200GB, 1 x 250GB, 2 x 320GB, 1 x 400GB, 3 x 500GB hard disk drives
  • Ubuntu Linux 64-bit

NAS

  • Atom 330 Dual Core @ 1.6 GHz
  • 2GB DDR2 memory module
  • 2 x 1TB hard disk drives
  • FreeNAS

Dedicated Server

  • Celeron 2.6 GHz
  • 512MB main memory
  • 80GB hard disk drive
  • 100Mbit ethernet port
  • Ubuntu Linux 32-bit

Laptop

  • 13″ white Intel MacBook
  • Mac OS X 10.5

Mobile Phones

  • iPhone 3G

Old Boxes

  • All these boxes are powered off as I am trying to save power
  • Intel 8086 XT in some rubbish dump. I wish I had not pulled this thing apart and destroyed it.
  • Sun SPARCClassic X (32-bit 50MHz sparc processor, OpenBSD 3.1)
  • Athlon 1600+ (FreeBSD)
  • Celeron 2.4 GHz (OpenBSD)
  • Pentium 4 2.6 GHz (Ubuntu server)

Wish List

  • Ridiculously expensive studio monitors, mixing desk, compressors and other analogue hardware effects units
  • Sound proofed studio
  • Weighted MIDI keyboard
  • MOTU HD192 192-kHz audio interface
  • Mac Pro with Logic Pro
  • Access Virus TI 2 keyboard
  • Alesis A6 Andromeda keyboard (out of production)
  • Nord Lead 2X keyboard
  • Nord Lead 3 keyboard
  • Novation BassStation keyboard (out of production)
  • Roland JP8000 keyboard (out of production)
  • Roland Juno-G keyboard