built it in September with (new) parts from newegg. Spent about 1500 total.
-Cooler master Centurion5 ATX case. Has a side window. OEM
-Western Digital 10k RPM 36Gb Raptor
-Segate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb Perpendicular recording
-Aspire 520W PSU [urlhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817148008]OEM[/url] (only in blue)
-Sapphire Radeon 1800XT 256 Mb
MSI K9N Neo-F socket AM2 mobo Nforce 550MCP( pci-x 4,8,16, pci x 3)
-2 Gb Corsair XMS DDR2 800 CL4 OEM
AMD Athlon 64 AM2 3800 2.4 Ghz
Samsung Writemaster 12x DVD-RAM
This fan (as exhaust)
Thisfan (as intake)
I have 4x blue lighted case feet installed. all fans are blue lighted.
Accelero X2 fan installed on the 1800XT, helps with the temp a lot.
Saitek Eclipse (blue) installed. Immaculate. Seriously.
Logitech LX7 wireless mouse. also immaculate. retail
Aftermarket IDE cable installed to improve airflow.
Just pondering....
Oh yea...
Windows XP home installed
Windows Vista build 5600 Installed
Photoshop CS2 + CS3 Beta
Dreamweaver MX
Flash 7
BF2 (+ All well known mods)
CS:S
LOTR: Shadows of Angmar beta (still works fine)
FEAR combat
Americas Army
Fraps Registered
Microsoft Office
All preinstalled
(and over 3gb of Music)
I also have 2 more sticks of the XMS ram laying around (they work fine, just not used by XP)
I have some crappy pics if anyone wants to see.
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