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Sorry for the story that is posted beneath. I'm not too great with getting to the point sometimes. . .
It's pretty sad. I graduated from college with a degree in Information Systems yet I never really played with computer hardware, ie building a system for myself. Well, now that I have a job and some decent income, I decided the time was right to build myself something that will last a few years. My 1.5 year old Sager 8790 laptop, with an ATI 9700, is starting to show its age (can still run games, but without much eye candy).
At first, my budget was "around $1000." Well, that was thrown out the window pretty quickly. I bought an Antec P180 from CompUSA on Black Friday. I couldn't pass up the $50 mail-in rebate. From that point on, I pretty much decided that I wasn't gonna meet my budget, so I upgraded a few things, mainly the processor and memory. I was originally planning on an AMD 3200+ and 1gb, but those turned into an AMD 3700+ and 2gb Corsair XMS. I also splurged on the power supply. I found someone selling a PC Power & Cooling 510sli here in the forums a week or two ago and I jumped on it (couldn't resist the $140 price). Everything else in the system is about what I had planned from the start. Check out the sig for all the other important info.
Tonight, I hope to complete the build that is about a month and a half in progress. I just got the AMD and 7800gt this afternoon. So, once I'm done with work, I finish up putting all the components in the case, finish wire management (which has been a royal PITA so far and I still don't think its very neat), and then get it up and running. I'll post a few pics up later after I get everything working. Let me know what you think.
It's pretty sad. I graduated from college with a degree in Information Systems yet I never really played with computer hardware, ie building a system for myself. Well, now that I have a job and some decent income, I decided the time was right to build myself something that will last a few years. My 1.5 year old Sager 8790 laptop, with an ATI 9700, is starting to show its age (can still run games, but without much eye candy).
At first, my budget was "around $1000." Well, that was thrown out the window pretty quickly. I bought an Antec P180 from CompUSA on Black Friday. I couldn't pass up the $50 mail-in rebate. From that point on, I pretty much decided that I wasn't gonna meet my budget, so I upgraded a few things, mainly the processor and memory. I was originally planning on an AMD 3200+ and 1gb, but those turned into an AMD 3700+ and 2gb Corsair XMS. I also splurged on the power supply. I found someone selling a PC Power & Cooling 510sli here in the forums a week or two ago and I jumped on it (couldn't resist the $140 price). Everything else in the system is about what I had planned from the start. Check out the sig for all the other important info.
Tonight, I hope to complete the build that is about a month and a half in progress. I just got the AMD and 7800gt this afternoon. So, once I'm done with work, I finish up putting all the components in the case, finish wire management (which has been a royal PITA so far and I still don't think its very neat), and then get it up and running. I'll post a few pics up later after I get everything working. Let me know what you think.
