about 2 weeks ago my computer that i sometimes leave on over night but put it in sleep mode was turned off. i hit the power button and it came on for a split second and turned off again. I held down the power button and it turned on but started smoking from the motherboard. I took it to a local PC guy in town and said the CPU fan quit and it fried the CPU and cooked the motherboard too. I have been wanting to build a new system from the ground up and now i had my chance.
1st I decided not to use my old case it was falling apart and the front audio jacks never worked right and the front USB ports were WAY at the bottom of the tower and hard to get to, so i got THIS case from a PC shop in town for 50 bucks.
as you can see the front audio/USB jacks are much higher up and can be covered by a flip up panel.
I am getting a new motherboard from Gigabyte and a AMD 64 Dual Core 3200 (2.0ghz) processor with heatsink and CPU fan.
2 sticks of DDR2 800mhz 2 gig ram (4 gigs total) for it
Once I have them installed in the tower case I am plugging in the following:
Nvidia 7800 512mb PCI-Express video card
Soundblaster 5.1 Audigy LS sound card (same one in my old tower that was fried when the board died)
Stuff carrying over from old system:
160 gig maxtor HD (windows and drivers)
320 gig Western Digtal HD (media, pictures, video, mp3s etc)
floppy drive (old one was white i swapped it for a black one at the PC store to match)
LiteOn DVD R/W drive.
I cannot WAIT for my motherboard cpu/fan and memory to arrive
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