OT: New Computer Fun :)

Well, my old clunker decided to chuck it in. I come in, turn the power on,
and am greeted by the lovely smell of burning plastic and solder. Mmmmmmm :p

True it was only the powersupply, but I took it as a sign from the all
mighty whatsisface that I should make me a new computer. I'll fix up my old
one and give it to my brother later ;) $1750 later I am now the happy geek
with a:

Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo
Asus Mainboard P5N32-E SLI Plus
Gigabyte 8800 GTS
2 Gig of Corsair DDR2-800
600W iGreen CoolMaster (85% efficiency ftw, never let anyone tell you
powersupplies aint key to your system!)
with a terabyte of SATA II goodness.

I was going to get the Gigabyte 8800 GTX, BUT I'm think rather than spend
just shy of a grand on the card itself, I can spend less than half of that,
and just SLI it when I feel the need to upgrade. The 600W powersupply can
also handle two 8800GTS's, but for two GTX's you need a freaken gigawatt!

Sigh, had some troubles with BSOD's after installs. My bad, didn't twist in
one of the CPU heatsink clips properly. Took me a day to find out after part
swapping, talk about frustrating :/. I tell ya in all my past years of
working as a tech, CPU coolers have always been the most depressing things
to install. With no other item do I feel like I'm going to break quite as
much as them.

Anyway, sooooo many games waiting to be played. C&C 3, Gothic 3, Oblivion
(again), X3 (after nearly a year of owning it!!). Ahh, and you know what the
best thing is? My girlfriend fully supported the purchase, she felt guilty
that I didn't have any games to play (well, and therefore not at all in my
opinion) on my old comp since I gave up WoW. Talk about conditioning! HAH :D

Ceo-


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