Hello all, it's been a very long time. For those that remember me, I haven't been around in about three years. I know this, because my son is 2 and a half now. A couple of years ago my main rig died an untimely death, freak storm came up in the night and it was struck by lightning. So alas, no more Animus. I picked up a good deal on a gaming machine on Craigslist to replace it temporarily, my intention was to build a new rig a little at a time. Well, a couple of months ago the temporary rig refused to start meaning I had to actually get to work building a new machine. I didn't want to rush it though, and that's hard when you're only access to the internet is your wife's Mac (how I hate these things).
After collecting a few parts over the past few months I'm nearly ready to get to work in earnest. This however is going to be a continuing project, since I've gotten the go ahead from my good lady wife to add my own personal touch to the house via computers. The Ghostwheel project will encompass all of the various machines I'm building. Right now, that includes the following: 2 Gaming Rigs, File Server, and 7 Raspberry Pi based gadgets. I will also be building a 3rd "budget" rig that will be the general purpose machine for the house, it'll be capable of gaming, etc. But it's going to be somewhere in the $300 range.
For those curious about the name of the project, it comes from the Chronicles of Amber. Each machine will be named sequentially as part of the larger project. Now to the stats on the rig I'm currently building.
GHOSTWHEEL INDEX
PERIPHERALS
GHOST
SPECTRE MK I
SPECTRE MK II
GHAST
More coming soon, I actually had to RMA the board and processor already since it refused to post on my test bench, so it's probably going to be a couple of weeks before I get to fire the thing up.