User:soggymaster  

Just something made up really quickly. Don't count on any updates and the rough formatting. Quickly written in OpenOffice and converted to HTML.


Soggymaster's Characters


Eonar - US/PvE

Soggymaster – Human Paladin

Soggydruid – Night Elf Druid

Ahotaa – Tauren Shaman

Iluuni – Human Priest

Elbuns – Gnome Warlock

Mechele – Human Warrior

Shaeolist – Draenei Shaman

Darmorel – Blood Elf Paladin

Magist – Gnome Mage

Daruvial – Draenei Hunter

Ullio – Tauren Hunter

Recyclacow – Tauren Death Knight

Bearbone – Tauren Druid

Recyclaelf – Night Elf Death Knight


Quel'Thalas – Latin America/PvE

Darmorel – Blood Elf Mage

Taitlen – Tauren Hunter

Bearbone – Tauren Druid

Destination realm for recent (October 2008) free transfers. Moved mage there.


Eldre'Thalas – US/PvE

Many abandoned toons, from when a friend transferred there.


Presently dual “boxing”. May run 3 accounts (have a 3rd account with no active subscription). Can run 2 (accounts) on 1 (machine) no problem. Spare box has issues running 2 on 1, so doing a true dual box while running spare rig.


Soggymaster's Rigs


Main box

AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ @ stock 2600 Mhz

ASUS M2N-E

8gb G-Skill PC2-800 (5-5-5-15)

Windows XP Pro x86 (Vista sucks, even 64-bit), dual boot with Windows 7 Beta x64

eVGA nVidia Geforce GTX 260 Core 216

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Gamer

16x DVD burner

36gb Western Digital Raptor (10,000 RPM, SATA) + 5 other Western Digital PATA and SATA drives totaling 1350 GB storage space

550 watt Antec PSU


Spare/front room box

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ stock 1866 Mhz

ASUS P5NSLI

2gb G-Skill PC2-800 (5-5-5-15)

Windows XP x86

Gigabyte nVidia Geforce 7600GT w/ passive cooling

Onboard sound

16x DVD burner

Pair 60gb Western Digital PATA drives

350 (!!) watt Antec PSU (yes I should run a larger PSU with it...)


Second box

Dell Optiplex GX270 surplus machine

Intel Pentium 4C @ 2800 Mhz (800 FSB)

Dell custom Intel 865P-based motherboard (with built in graphics)

2x512 mb PC-333 and 1x 1gb PC-400 DDR

Windows XP Pro x86

ATI All-in-Wonder (7200 chip, 32mb frame buffer)

Creative Sound Blaster Live!

CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive

3x 80gb Western Digital drives


Shared components

Viewsonic 19” LCD w/ DVI and VGA inputs, can and does switch between them on the fly

Generic old 19” CRT for old fashioned dual monitor action.

Logitech G5 for main and Logitech MX510 for Dell.

Lexmark-made IBM keyboard for main and Dell-brand $5 keyboard for Dell.

Belkin Nostromo n52TE

HP PSC 1210

Sennheiser PC510 headset, using cheap Radio shack omni directional vocal/instrument mic.

Main box housed in Antec P160 all-aluminium case

Spare box housed in much older Antec steel case, hooks up to 52” LCD TV via DVI to HDMI cable.


Current wishlist for main box (allowing me to retire the Dell)

AMD Phenom II x4 940 Black edition

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM2+/AM2 board

8gb PC2-800

Multiple terabyte harddrives with NAS box (may convert second machine into NAS box)

AMD Radeon 4870 x2 in Crossfire (SLI support for dual monitors is not exactly there)

Antec 650 watt PSU for AMD box, giving existing 550 to Core 2 Duo box

Antec 750 or better PSU for new machine

Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones

Extra X-Fi, preferably one with an internal or external breakout box for added connectivity

Samsung 22” or larger widescreen LCD x2 (retiring CRT, demoting current 19” to spare box duty). May only purchase one for time being

Custom modify an older Antec SX1040 case to place PSU on bottom and perpendicular HDD mounting, also to accept 120mm or larger fans. May even purchase a Cooler Master Storm Sniper case and just play with old cases for modding sake.





This page last modified 2009-04-02 20:02:49.