I need to get shares in overclockers.co.uk - the upgrade I've done has cost a packet! Never had a problem with them or their couriers either.
Now have
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (Clawhammer core) S754
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe - with onboard everything, 5 PCIs, 8 USBs
768 MB PC2700 - the fastest my old board would take, plan to upgrade to 1 GB PC3200 soon...
NVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 128 MB onboard RAM - again, planned upgrade here...
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - no upgrade here (pwns)
Wireless 54g adapter
Pinnacle TV card (will upgrade, when I can get one that receives all 4 analogue and digital radio and TV broadcasts)
DVD and CD writers, FDD (why do I still have this?)
250 GB SATA HDD with 16 MB cache- this absolutely flies - partitioned 60, 60, 120 ish
120 GB ATA HDD with poor cache that I've only kept because I'm too lazy to reformat - partitioned 60, 60
Nice looking case which is about £30 at Savastore.com with cool window in the side and about two million lights, all the fans sound like flying on a 747
That's about it (just fancied showing off now I have a PC worthy of at least some street cred)
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Originally Posted by Dave Stones
Well I used to have a summer job building machines, and I regularly take apart and tinker with the htpc so I think i am more than qualified to give a static shock to everything  it is very fun, though last time i was in a case I got blood all over the motherboard... (sharp edges cut finers, dont you know  ) |
Don't I know it. Nursing a plaster on a finger now from today's upgrade and a fight with my graphics card.
Lost a similar fight with the sound card doing a routine clean out and remove/reseat about six months ago. Both pulling out a molex...
Previous lame injury was a paper cut off the cardboard box my new processor came in. I'd cut the little plastic seal with scissors and put my finger under the edge to open it...
PCs should carry a health warning... and the only thing I wear static bands for is changing RAM and CPUs. I've not fried anything - yet - and I've been playing inside PCs for a number of years... *touches wood*