My Dad’s New PC
Dropped off my Dad’s new PC to him on Sunday. I have to say I am quite thrilled with how the box turned out, especially with the price we paid for all the parts ~$1250 for the whole thing. I have always enjoyed build nice solid machines as I find it relaxing to do the whole cabling thing and whatnot. I was quite impressed by the new model of the case (which I have been using for like 3 years in machines) now has a modular cable PSU! Granted Antec’s cases are not always the flashiest, but they are solid and well built and you almost never can go wrong with one! For those that are interested in the full specs:
- Antec TX1050B Case
- Abit AN8 Ultra Motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU
- 1GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Dual Channel
- Ati FireGL V3100 PCIe 128MB Video Card
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA 300MBs
- Plextor PX-716AL DVD/RW Drive
- Asus DVD-E616A DVD-ROM
Nice speedy little system to replace my Dad’s current Athlon XP 2100+ with 1GB of PC2700. Not that his old system is bad, but it is three years old, so it was time for the upgrade. Did not get to go with the 64-bit version of XP yet because he still has some old 16 bit apps that he has to use for his job, and the company that develops them hasn’t bothered with updating them yet. Hell, one of them still writes a DOS program. Could be worse I guess.
Got everything all setup on his system and made sure I got all the FOSS stuff that was needed installed and configured. Now is just the long transistion period for all the software. You figure my Dad has probably close to 50 programs that he owns that need to be transfered to this new computer, so it will probably be a good 2 weeks or so before this new machine actually gets put into play.
For those that want pics of the build start here and work from there. Have to start with the General Tso’s Chicken and Beer pre-build dinner! Which reminds me, I really need to purchase a Flickr! Pro account. So if anyone wants to send me some money (or *cough*visit sponsors*cough*) I would really appreciate it!
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