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[MallardWacker]

This is one of the reasons I've neen busy.  This is a new box me and my son just got finished with for his first year in college.

Here are the specs.

ASUS A8N5X Mother Board
AMD X2 3800 Manchester (Dual Core)
Two sticks of 1 gig A-DATA Vitesta  DDR Memory
ARCTIC FREEZER 64 PRO CPU Cooler
ThermalTake SViking VA400BWS Case
ThermalTake TR2-430W Power Supply
XFX GeForce 6800XTreme 256meg DDR2 Video Card
LiteOn 16xDVD Burner
Seagate Barracuda 250gb HDD
Samsung 740B 17" LCD Monitor
WFW 3.11

[Habanero Smoker]

Nice machine.

I like that case. Where did you purchase it from NewEgg.com

[MallardWacker]

Newegg is always my first choice and most of the parts came from there.  However ZipZoomFly (The old GoogleGear) had it and the Mobo quite a bit cheaper.

Here is ZipZooms link>>>http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=371213

I like the fan controls along with the digital readout temp.  I have spent more for all aluminum Cooler Master's before but I like this case the best.  Love the side mounted HDD's.  The fans are whisper quite unless you really crank them up, with that ArticFreezer and letting the thermal paste get hard, it stays around 31c or less.

[iceman]

Geez MW that thing is awsome. :o It looks like it does everything including the dishes. ::)

[Habanero Smoker]

That case is nice. Especially the hard drive placement. My other machine is down. I have to get in their and make sure all wiring, and cards are solidly connected. The case is small, so I was thinking why not just get a bigger case. The one you bought looks like it will work fine.

[asa]

Looks really cool. What do you plan to smoke in it?

[Oldman]

Hey for someone who flys to the pond where did you put the wings for that thing? LOL~~! Nice job.

[car54]

Looks great Mallardwacker. I will be looking for a computer when the new Microsoft OS is released. I am still using windows 98. What OS are you using. What about the price of the computer? When ever I looked into building my own it seemed like it was a lot more expensive then buying a Dell of which I have.

Brad

[MallardWacker]

Brad,

This box cost right at 1200.00 with the monitor.  My son is has double major in Mathematics and Computer Science plus he loves playing WOW so we kind of splurged.  You could do it for a whole lot less.  Our major upgrades were the memory, monitor, video card, case & power supply, and the dual core processor..

There is a great bare bones rig from ASUS that i have first hand experience with and I just  love it, its called a ASUS Vintage-AE1 AMD Socket 754here is the link to it>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856110032

If you are not some gamer, you can get this going fairly well.  All you need to get is the HDD, Processor, memory and burner of choice...PLUS the OS.  Very nice looking, fan is not loud and should run anything Microsoft could toss at it for a while.

[whitetailfan]

Will that thing send and receive e-mail?  I hope you can log onto the forum when you go to visit him LOL