Did I mention that I had built a new computer last semester? I’m sure I didn’t. My roommate helped me pick out some of the stuff and put it together. It’s pretty sweet now. My old one had a failed hard drive and I thought it was high time to get a new computer. Here’s what I had bought:
- AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ Socket 939
- Asus K8N-E DELUXE nForce3 250Gb Athlon 64 Skt754 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA
- Corsair CMX1024-3200C2PRO 1GB DDR400 XMS3200 ProSeries Memory
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
- Thermaltake A1838 Venus Silent Boost K8 Cooler
- Antec Performance One P180 Advanced Super Mid Tower Case
- Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-450 450W Power Supply
I just salvaged my old DVD burner, video card, and diskette drive and voila! New computer! Well sorta. I still want a new monitor and video card. So far these are what I’m looking to buy within the month, along with an extra hard drive:
ATI Radeon X850XT 256 MB AGP Video Card
Viewsonic VX922 19in LCD Monitor
I’ll probably buy the video card first and then after my next pay check I’ll get the monitor… If somehow I come across with some extra money, I’ll probably try and get a dual dvd burner.
