Sure had a wonderful time trying to get my PC in its new casing up and running. So much so that I didn’t even do 1 hour of Final Fantasy XII over the weekend. And no BF2142 either.
An additional annoyance that I discovered was that the Viper’s front panel audio inputs were lacking speaker return connectors. This seems to be more of a manufacturing defect that anything else (it’s a Singaporean/Malaysian product, go figure). Had to do some rewiring for the front panel stereo minijack to work without losing sound from my normal set of speakers.
Other than that and the fact that the side mounted fan is a little noisy, things are quite dandy. I’ve moved back to my Abit IS7 motherboard, since it has better support for all these extra IO headers and its onboard audio has enough connectors for my 5.1 speaker set AND a mic AND a line-in from my PS2. Hence no more need of Winamp to route my PS2 audio for me.
Yet, you always discover new things, even with the old stuff you’ve had for months. The motherboard’s Wake-on-USB headers don’t seem to be compartmentalised as stated in the manual: if I turn it on, all USB devices plugged into the back of my computer will have the ability to wake my computer up from standby. This includes the USB hub on my Dell 2405FPW monitor, which somehow sends that wake up signal when it goes into standby. What can I say? It’s a Dell.
With that said, I might need to pick up something for extra USB headers for the Dell hub. The front panel USB doesn’t seem to be affected, but it’s awkward having the hub connected via the front.
Put that with two 12cm fans, and hopefully, that will be the end of my computer expenses for now.
Except for that Twinhan VisionDTV Sat-Ci card. 😛 And a corresponding CAM. 😛 Oh, and we need a webcam as well, dammit!
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