Building my Ultimate (mid-life crisis) Computer

Posted in: General by Steve on November 28, 2006

So, I’ve convinced the wife to let me build my dream gaming computer. Well, not entirely dream, because I had to use some restraint, otherwise, I could have spent $4,000 on this thing. Anyway, I’m starting to get everything together and I wanted to document everything about it.

First, here are all the parts:

LIAN LI PC-7A plus II Silver Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Zalman ZM600-HP HeatPipe Cooled 600w Modular Power Supply

2 – Seagate 160GB Hard Drive 7200RPM, Internal, SATA/300, 3.5 inch, 8MB Cache
ALPS Silver 1.44MB 3.5″ Internal Floppy Drive Model DF354H168F

ASUS Silver 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM ATAPI/E-IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E616A2 SV
NEC Silver 18X 2M Cache E-IDE / ATAPI DVD Burner

2 – Hanns·G JW-199DPO Silver 19″ 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

And coming tomorrow:
BFG BFGR88768GTXE GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express Video Card w/Dual-DVI, HDTV-Out
Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775, 4MB Cache
eVGA 122-CK-NF68 nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 1333MHz DDR2 – 1000 Extreme Overclocking Motherboard
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4D 2GB DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Dominator Series Memory Retail

Here’s some pictures of how the front and back look. I’ve installed everything that I have so far and am waiting for the rest to install. I’m also going to be getting a Zalman CNPS9700 NT CPU Cooler/Fan tomorrow from Fry’s along with some Arctic Silver and other misc parts that I need.

(front)

(back)

power supply

Back Inside

Side View

Once I get the rest, I’ll post the pictures of building the rest of the computer and some performance marks as well.

Chris Berman needs to retire

Posted in: Sports by Steve on November 20, 2006

I’m watching SportsCenter and Chris Berman sucks balls.  He needs to give it up.  He should have retired a while ago.  His schtick is old and we’ve already heard everything.

Give it up old man. You’ve got nothing to prove except that you have no life.