How to build a gingerbread computer Introduction Recipe, Ingredients and Accessories Graphic card CPU cooler RAM memory Mainboard Summary

21/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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Introduction

Christmas is just round the corner. For some it is a chance to relax with friends and relatives and retreat from the every day hectic work pace. A common family tradition is Christmas baking and most of us have probably taken part in it at least once, with a more or less successful result. Personally, I’m not a big fan of the whole Christmas baking thing, but since my girlfriend loves it I usually end up doing it anyway.

This year a new idea popped into my head when baking the annual ingerbread house. How about doing something fun and different? Thoughts swirled in my head for a moment and eventually formed a peculiar idea: “Why not build a gingerbread computer? No, get a hold of yourself. This is just too geeky; having computers as a hobby isn't enough but now you'll intrude on the traditional gingerbread house building.” I looked in the mirror for a moment and thought: "Has it really gone that far?" A fraction of a second passed before the answer came: “This is just too fun to miss out this challenge. Screw Christmas traditions and on with the computer “nerdiness”; let's build a gingerbread PC!”

In the following text you will take part of the result, from idea to realization. The Gingerbread PC will be published in two parts. The first part of this article focuses on building the processor, heatsink, memory, graphics card and the mainboard. In the second part we will continue with the case, power supply, CD/DVD-player and the harddrive.

21/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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