New system!

[Ghosth]

Parts ordered, thanks to a nice "early inheritance" check from mom and dad I can finally build a new system to replace this one (4 years old that you mongrels bought for me)

Antec Two Hundred Black ATX Mid Tower / Computer Case         $52.99
Cooler Master RS550-PCARE3-US ATX 12v v2.3 / EPS 12v 550W Power Supply  $48.99                 
WESTERN DIGITAL Caviar Blue 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"          $85.99         
Lite On IHAS124-04 Black SATA 24X Dual Layer Internal DVDRW / DVD Drive         $17.98 x4         Gigabyte GA-Q67M-D2H-B3 - LGA 1155 Intel Q67 Chipset Micro ATX Intel Desktop Motherboard, SATA 6Gb/s
Bundle Options:    $409.96  Intel I5 2500k processor, Gigabyte GA-Q67M-D2H-B3 - LGA 1155 Intel Q67 Chipset Micro ATX Intel Desktop Motherboard, SATA 6Gb/s Mboard, 8 Gig corsair ram assembled and tested.

 ASUS EAH6850 DC/2DIS/1GD5/V2 HD6850 1GB GDDR5 256bit PCIE 2.1 Crossfire Support Video Card         $159.99         
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound - 4gram         $2.99         $2.99         
Arctic Cooling ARCTIC F12 120mm Case Fan with 3 Pin Connector         $6.99         $13.98         
          
Thank you for choosing mwave.com    Sub-Total    $846.81
Shipping & Handling Fee    $35.42

Parts should be here in a few days.

[forHIM]

congrats on the new rig.  Hope you get as much use out of it as the current one

[Ghosth]

Its ALIVE!

Had a few kinks yesterday, 1 standoff in wrong spot, wires for power sw, reset switch are "interesting" but finally got them on right, and power switch got bumped and wasn't being activated by the button which caused me a few interesting hours. (isn't there always 3 things to figure out on any new computer?)

It boots from cold start to desktop in 25 seconds. 

[JDog]

Sweet       Now you have to put your new toy through it's paces........  Have fun



   

[Ghosth]

Working on core software, xp is loaded, will try to setup dual boot with win 7 later today.
Then I might have to download AH just to see how it does.