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Your System - April 2006

Antec Sonata chassis
Antec Neo HE430 power supply
MSI 865PE Neo2-FIS2R motherboard
Intel "Prescott" P4 3-GHz (@ 3.3-GHz)
AVC Sunflower2 HSF
2-GB PC3200 *(Upgraded)*

300-GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ
NEC ND-3500AG DVD±R/RW
Internal media card reader
3½" FDD

ATI All-in-Wonder X800 XT
21" Hitachi SuperScan CRT monitor
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
4.1 surround speaker setup
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Peace,
Mike

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Update on system

Asus A8N-E nForce 4 Ultra
AMD Athlong 64 3200+ Venice Core 1.4v
sock HSF - soon to be changed
Hynix 512MB x2 1 GB RAM
Sapphire X700 Pro
Zalman VF700 Cu *ADDED*
LG GSA-4163B DVD burner
Maxtor 160GB SATA system+storage *ADDED*
Western Digital 80GB SE storage
Maxtor 80GB ATA133 storage
3 1/2 FDD
internal 5-in1 cardreader

19-inch Mitsubishi Diamondtron
Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard

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Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000SWA Full Tower Aluminum Case
OCZ PowerStream 520W Power Supply
ASUS A8V Deluxe DFI LanParty VENUS NForce4 *ADDED*
AMD 64 3500+ ATHLON 64 939P Athlon AMD X2 4800 *ADDED*
OCZ Voltage eXtreme EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Dual Channel
Gigabyte GV-N68T256DH Nvidia 6800GT 256mg DDR3 2x EVGA 7900GT CO Superclocked SLI'ed *ADDED*
SAMSUNG 710T-Black 17' LCD monitor Viewsonic VX922 2ms Response Time 19' *ADDED*
Soundblaster X-FI Xtreme Music
Logitech Z-5500
seagate 20gig hd
wd 120gig UltraATA 8mg cache
wd 120gig SerialATA 8mg cache
wd 120gig SerialATA 8mg cache (raid 0)
ASUS Black 52X32X52 CD-RW Drive w/ QuieTrack Technology
Asus Black 16X DVD-ROM Drive
ASUS DRW-1604P NEC DVD-R/W 3520A *ADDED*
Logitech Laser Cordless Mouse MX-1000
Logitech Elite Keyboard
floppy
Thermalright SLK-948U
Optimum Online
Windows XP pro

X-Dreamer ATX case w/window
AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core AMD 64 FX-60 *ADDED*
Stock HS and Fan ZALMAN CNPS9500 HS *ADDED*
1 GB Corsair XMS Dual Channel CAS 2.5 2.0
160 GB WD SATA2
200 GB Seagate IDE
DVD-ROM Pioneer DVD116
DVD+/-RW NuTech
ACL850 Onboard Sound
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra
6 case fans (3 intake, 3 exhaust)
MSI X800XL 256MB
PSU Antec True Power 430 watt Antec NeoHE 550w *ADDED*

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AMD 64 X2 4800+
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
4 GB Corsair DDR PC3200 Platinum
XFX GeForce 6800 XTreme 256 MB RAM
2x WD 36 GB 10K RPM Raptor SATA HDD
1 WD 250 GB IDE 7200 RPM HDD
1 Floppy Drive
Sony DRU-710 DL CD/DVD
OCZ 520W ModStream PSU
All wrapped up in a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case

Just finished last night. Power-on checks went without any smoke escaping. BIOS reports CPU running around 35-36°C at idle with the AMD stock HSF (room temp around 20°C). It's quiet - the large 120mm fans (2 in case, one in PSU) are helping in that area.

All of the drives are from an older system (my Opteron 150 setup that fried itself up one day). New case, mobo, CPU, RAM, PSU and video card.

The goal is to get it up and running with Windows Vista 64 Bit version. Cross your fingers for me.
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...then THINK! again!!

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Dell XPS M170 Laptop (right before they switched to the m1710 so i got a ridiculous deal)

Pentium M 760 2GHz
2GB Dual-Channel 533MHz DDR2 RAM
256MB GeForce 7800 GTX Go
120GB 5400RPM SATA HDD
17" WUXGA Screen @ 1920x1200 Native Resolution
8x DVD/CD Burner
TV Tuner w/ Remote
other stuff not worth bragging about

it should be shipping any day now (fingers crossed!)

btw i built my own desktop system in mid...i'd rather not say

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This isn't an update on my main system but one of my many spares .

Asus CUV4X motherboard
Intel Pentium III 600EB Pentium III 933 MHz *ADDED*, using the 600's HSF
160 MB PC100/133 @ 133 MHz, CAS2
13 GB IBM Deskstar+7.5 GB WD Spartan
16 MB nVidia Vanta AGP
Windows XP Pro
Onboard AC97 audio
50x Afreey CD-ROM
Some generic 300w PSU

Planned future upgrades are:
2x256 MB PC133, CAS2
GeForce 4 Ti 4200, or another relatively fast and cheap card
All-copper HSF with a big fan
A different optical drive
330w Antec TruePower (once I get it back from my friend)

PFU's for my main machine:
Opteron 165/170
Copper BGA heatsinks for the back of my 7800 GTX. The aluminum heatspreader thingy that came with my NV Silencer 5 sucks and keeps falling off. Last thing I want is that card getting shorted out or torched memory.

That's all I can think of for now .

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ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 rev 1.04
Athlon 64 3200+ Rev E4
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Corsair PC 3200 2x512 Value Select
BFG 6800 non-Ultra AGP
Maxtor 300GB 7200 16m cache hard drive *ADDED*
Maxtor 200GB 7200 8m cache hard drive
Western Digital 60GB 7200 hard drive
27GB External USB 2.0 hard drive *ADDED*
Samsung 552 DVD-RW and Lite-On 411S DVD-RW
Princeton Senergy 174 17" LCD 16 ms refresh
Audigy 1 (old)
Antec Sonata case w/ True430 Antec PSU *MOVED*
380 Watt SmartPower 2.0 PSU
Saitek keyboard
Logitech 510 Mouse

Currently running at 2.52 GHz, 252 HTT, 210.0 Ram 36C idle, 45C load.

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.42Ghz Socket 939 Toledo 1MB L2 x2.......ADDED
ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard
2GB (2x1GB) OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum Edition Dual Channel........ADDED
GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB DDR3 DVI
Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS
Seagate 300Gb 7200rpm (SATA)
Seagate 400Gb 7200rpm (SATA)
Maxtor 250Gb 7200rpm(ATA-IDE)
Maxtor 250Gb 7200rpm (ATA-IDE)
Maxtor 200Gb 7200rpm (ATA-IDE)
Maxtor 200Gb 7200rpm (USB 2.0)Metal Gear Box External
Plextor PX-716A 16X DVD±RW DL
Plextor PX-716A 16X DVD±RW DL......ADDED
Marvell GigaLAN Ethernet
1500/384 DSLExtreme ADSL
Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" Wide Screen Flat Panel LCD.....ADDED
Logitech Z-560 4.1 THX 400W Speakers
Cooler Master Wave Master Black Special Edition.....ADDED
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.42GHz Socket 939 Toledo 1Mb L2 x2,ASUS A8V Deluxe,Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS,GeForce 6800 Ultra, 2Gb OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Platinum Edition,WaveMaster Black Special Edition,6X HDs = 1.6Tb Storage

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