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Your System - December 2007

ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 rev 1.04
Athlon 64 x2 3800+ @ 2.55 GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Corsair PC 3200 4x512 Value Select
eVGA 7900GS
Maxtor 300GB 7200 16m cache hard drive
Maxtor 200GB 7200 8m cache hard drive
Samsung 120GB External USB 2.0 hard drive
Western Digital Elements 500gb USB 2.0 hard drive *ADDED*
Samsung 552B DVD-RW
Samsung 182D DVD-RW
Westinghouse LCM-22w3 22" LCD 5 ms refresh
Princeton Senergy 174 17" LCD 16 ms refresh
Audigy 1
Antec Sonata case w/ Earthwatts 500 PSU
Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000
Logitech G5 Mouse

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Cooler Master Mystique II Case
Roswell 550 PSU
Abit AN52
AMD Brisbane AM2 5000 o/c @ 3.01
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
(2)1 gig GSkill DDR2 6400
MSI 2600XT o/c Diamond Plus Video Card
LG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe
Sony Floppy
Western Dig Sata II 160 gig
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL 8GB(4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
XFX PVT88PYDD4 GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
ASUS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model
CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 620W Power Supply
LIAN LI PC-B25B Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
SAMSUNG 2220WM Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
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Dell SC440 from their $249, 3 day sale, such as: »PowerEdge SC440 $249 3 Days Only!
Almost bone stock with 512 meg memory (4 Gig of Kingston is in transit), E2140, 80 Gig HD, onboard Gigabit ethernet and USB. The only extra I got is Dell's overpriced floppy drive, ($29) but otherwise a floppy would most likely take up a scarce 5.25" bay.

I'll be adding a 400 Gig Cuda, a Creative 2ZS Platinum Pro, and an i-RAM with 4 Gig (I already have these) and a yet to be determined PCI-e graphics card after modding the x8 slot.

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Abit IP35 *ADDED*
Core 2 Duo E6550 @2850 MHz *ADDED*
Thermalright Ultima 90 w/Scythe SFF21E *ADDED*
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 *ADDED*
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB HD
Seagate ST3250824AS 500GB HD
Lite-On SHC-52S7K-05 SATA Combo
NEC 7170A-0B DVD Burner
Samsung SH-S203N SATA DVD Burner *ADDED*
GIGABYTE GeForce 8600GT 256MB
Antec Solo w/ Neo HE 550W PSU
Samsung 204BW 20" LCD
Klipsch Promedia 2.1

Upgraded from an overclocked Opteron 175 to a new Core 2 Duo. According to benchmarks, my CPU performance is up 38%. My Kill-A-Watt says my power draw at idle went down from 103W to 86W. And while it was very quiet before it is almost silent now.

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»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···3136020- main board
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22136131 - HDD
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20220142 - 1GB memory stick
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20220144 - 2GB memory kit
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14143118 - 8800GT
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14143118 - 8800GT
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···33342002 - NIC card
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14143055 - Physx card
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···29102006 - sound card
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···17182030 - PSU
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···19103191 - CPU
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···35118004 - CPU cooler
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···36116153 - speaker set
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···26106157 - headset
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···24252008 - monitor 1
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11147064 - midtower
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···35106104 - 80mm PCI slot fan
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11999099 - 120mm front fan
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11999199 - 80mm side fan
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11999199 - 80mm rear fan
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···35106105 - HDD cooler
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11999142 - accessory box
»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···00884026 - laser LED
»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···11992002 - Front LCD panel display
»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···27106072 - optical drive
»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···27106072 - optical drive
»www.newegg.com/product/product.a···11994001 - cold cathodes
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20223073 - memory card reader similar to mine

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Asus P5E
intel Q6600 2.4 @ 3.2
2 X 1G DDR2 PC8500
MSI ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
4 X WD 500Gig HD
1 ext 500Gig Simpletech HD
1 ext 250Gig WD HD
1 Removable WD 120Gig HD
Samsung Syncmaster 24" 245BW
Thermaltake Armor LCS Case W/Water Cooling
Liteon DVD+RW

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Modified components:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
-Added: Thermalright HR-05 IFX chipset cooler
EVGA 8800GTS 640 KO
-Added: Zalman VF1000+RHS-88 VGA cooler

Changed PSU to: Corsair 620HX PSU

Changed case fans to:
Nexus Real Silent Case Fan SP802512L-03 (x2 exhaust, x1 chipset cooler)
Noctua NF-S12-1200 (x1 Intake)

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Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.8GHz.
2x2GB G.Skill PC2-6400 5-5-5-15.
Added: 2x BFG GeForce 8800GT 512MB. (Replaced 1 Gigabyte GeForce 7950GT 512MB.)
Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA.
Western Digital Caviar 160GB SATA.
Western Digital Scorpio 120GB PATA-USB2.
Western Digital Caviar 80GB PATA-USB2.
Creative Labs 16x48 DVD-ROM PATA-33.
HP dvd840i 16x48x32 DVD-RW PATA-66.
Added: ABS Tagan BZ800 800W PSU. (Replaced a 500W AthenaPower PSU.)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64.
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Installed a Belkin 5-port USB PCI card and put my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer back in.

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CoolerMaster CM STC-T01-UWK Black and Silver 11 bay Tower case ~ Added!

DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-DR System board

AMD Athlon 64 Toledo 4800 (hoping AMD will replace)

Thermalright XP-120 w/Panaflo and Liquid Pro

Team Extreme Cronus Micron 5Bf DDR-500 RAM 2 x 1GB

Seagate 7200.10 750G HD ~ Added!

WD 250G HD (going into other system soon)

Exelstor 80G HD

IBM Deskstar 80G PATA (going into other system soon)

ASUS 16X burner

NEC 8X burner

Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

NEC based USB card

Creative Labs P7800s

Logitech 15

MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer Leather

Samsung Laser Printer

HP Color Printer Card reader

Sundry items

Soon to get: another drive and replacement CPU hopefully an Opteron.

NOTE: I HIGHLY recommend the CM Stacker case, it is amazing. Now I have to pay for it, heh...
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Changed my Intel DG33TL to an Abit IX38 QuadGT. New RAM is one the way as well: 2x2GB OCZ Reaper (non"-X").

when ram comes it will be:
Q6700 w/ Ultra-120 and yate Loon medium
abit IX38 QuadGT
Antec nine hundred w/ yate loon fans replacing stock
PCP&C 750w Quad Silencer
2x2GB OCZ Reaper pc6400
x1800XT 256MB
74GB Raptor / 500GB 16MB WD
Optiarc (Sony/NEC) AD7170A IDE
X-Fi Fatality champion w/ drive bay (card RMA'ed to creative) currently using onboard sound
Logitech z-5500
Samsung 226bw
Razer Copperhead
Logitech G15
XP x64
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Got a new video card.

Thermaltake Armor Jr. Silver Aluminum
AMD 64 FX-60 Dual Core Toledo Core
ZALMAN CNPS9500 HS
2x1GB OCZ XMS Dual Channel CAS 2
160 GB WD SATA2
200 GB Seagate IDE
DVD DL SAMSUNG SH-S183L
DVD+/-RW NuTech
Realtek ALC 882 onboard sound
ASUS A8R32 MVP-Deluxe Crossfire
2 case fans (1 intake, 1 exhaust)
XFX 7800GTX BFG OC 8800GT 512MB (Added)
PSU Antec NeoHE 550 watt

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My second build! (First was a gift for my mother) I plan on getting a nice LG widescreen LCD later on. Took me a while doing research, reading reviews, etc.

POWER SUPPLY:
SeaSonic 500W OEM
SS-500ES

CPU:
Intel E6550 2.33GHz 1333GHz FSB
BX80557E6550

MOTHERBOARD:
Gigabyte P35
GA-P35-DS3L

CASE:
Antec Mid-tower
SOLO

MONITOR:
KDS 19in. flat CRT
X-b

MEMORY:
A-DATA DDR2 800 PC2 6400 5-5-5-18 [2 x (2 x 1GB) = 4GB total]
ADQVE1A16K

HARD DRIVE:
WESTERN DIGITAL 80GB SATAII
WD800JD

OPTICAL DRIVE:
Sony NEC Optiarc DVD Burner IDE
AD-7190A

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows XP Professional x64

VIDEO CARD:
Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB
GV-RX24T256H

FLOPPY DRIVE:
Samsung OEM
SFD321B/LBL1

I'm still waiting for most of the parts to come in... dang you UPS. 3 day shipping my ass. Most parts ordered from newegg... love them. Grand total ~ $600 already had a copy of Windows XP x64 and the CRT monitor.

Going from a Sony Vaio Pentium III@750MHz 128MB ram laptop to this... hmmm

UPDATE:
All the parts came in on the 24th and everything was smoothly put together. Stress testing the computer for around 10hrs and runs great. Very quiet even compared to my laptop.

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Socket AM2 @ 2.0 ghz
MSI K9N Neo F (nForce 550)
Kingston DDR2-667 1 GB
Leadtek Winfast 8600 GT TDH 256 MB
BenQ DW-1640 16x DVD-RW
Sony DVD-ROM 16x DDU1632

Added (Sept 2007):

Jetart JACSH1 VGA cooler
CoolerMaster 550W PSU
Seagate SATA HD 250 GB

Added (Dec 2007):

LG 226WTQ 22" LCD monitor
KIngston DDR2-667 1GB (totaling 2 GB of memory)

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Would edit my previous post, but obviously can't, so anyways:

Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.8GHz.
ADDED: 4x2GB G.Skill PC2-6400 5-5-5-15 (the MB supports 16GB).
2x BFG GeForce 8800GT 512MB.
Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA-150.
Western Digital Caviar 160GB SATA-150.
Western Digital Scorpio 120GB PATA-133-USB2.
Western Digital Caviar 80GB PATA-100-USB2.
ADDED: Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB SATA2-300.
Creative Labs 16x48 DVD-ROM PATA-33.
HP dvd840i 16x48x32 DVD-RW PATA-66.
ABS Tagan BZ800 800W PSU.
ADDED: Logitech G15 keyboard.
Razer Diamondback mouse.
Windows Vista Ultimate x64.
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New build!

Intel Q6600 G0, Zalman 9700 cooler (3.83ghz atm)
eVga 780i SLI A1 board ADDED
eVga 8800GTS 512mb 780/2000/2200 ADDED
4gb Cruicial Ballistix PC8500
500gb WD Caviar HD
850w OCZ Gamexstream PSU
LG 18x DVD burner
Vista Home Pro 64bit
Antec 900 Case ADDED

Even better than before

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AMD Athlon X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz (1.44v)
Asus A8N32SLI Deluxe
2 x 500GB Western Digital AAAKS in Raid 0
2GB Corsair DDR500
EVGA 320MB 8800GTS (640mhz/960mhz)
Enermax Liberty 500watt Modular SLI PSU
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
20x Sata Lite On DVDRW w/ lightscribe
52X lite On CDRW Drive

moving to q9450
780i
eventually 2 8800GT
adding a 1TB drive to the raid 0 array and another 20x sata drive
with 4GB DDR2 1066

gonna give my old athlon setup to my parents and throw a 320GB drive in there.
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