I purchased some upgrades not too long ago. I shall post my specs for the record, and for posterity.
Power Supply:
650 Watt by some company I've never heard of. Can you tell that I plan to SLI eventually? Either that, or I plan to supply power to a small village in Africa.
UPS:
CyberPower 685AVR 70minute UPS. I bought this because power outages/surges killed my last setup.
Motherboard:
Gigabyte S-Series NForce 4 SLI socket AM2.
This baby has 4 SATA ports, and supports RAID. She'll only accept DDR2 ram.
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800 Dual Core
Not Top of the line, but not exactly low end either. I would say that it's high mid-range. Or Low high-end. Though, considering most users, this is a pretty freaking sweet chip.
RAM:
2 512mb Sticks of DDR2 675
This is a total of 1gig running in Dual Channel Mode. I want to upgrade to 2 gigs eventually.
Hard Disks:
1 RAPTOR 10000rpm 74GB with 16mb cache
1 300GB 7200rpm with 8mb cache
I want to get another RAPTOR and link it up in a RAID with the other RAPTOR. I put my OS and various demanding games/programs on the RAPTOR, and everything else on the other drive.
Optical Drive:
Plextor DVD-DL burner.
Pretty standard. There isn't exactly variation here. It's about everything I could hope for in an optical drive. The only way I could do better is if I had two.
Sound Card:
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
It works, and supports EAX2 HD Advanced. I really see no need to upgrade to a Sound Blaster XFI.
Video Card:
PCIx GeForce 6600 w/256mb of video memory.
Sigh... I'm borrowing this from my brother-in-law, because after all my upgrades, I couldn't afford a video card. And I had JUST bought an AGP 7600 with 512mb of video memory. But alas, PCIx boards do not have AGP. But still, with my new CPU, some games run better even with the video card downgrade. Of course, some games do not, but I expect to change that in the future with a GeForce 7950.
Case:
I don't know who makes it. Uh.... It's got a nice color scheme, with matte silver and a titanium-looking color. It also has some gloss black. There is a nice blue LCD display that tells me the up-time, temperature, and fan speed. It's very clean and classy looking.
Input Devices:
Logitech multimedia keyboard of some sort.
Logitech MX518 corded mouse.
Wacom Intuos 4x6
XBox 360 corded USB controller
The keyboard is nothing to brag about, but the mouse is the best mouse I have ever owned. I feel it to be even better than later Logitech mouses, such as the laser varieties. I never was one for cordless. Too much hassle with batteries. My Intuos lets me draw crap. It's my pride and joy. I use the XBox controller to play with emulators and to play racing games. Oh, and Cave Story.
Display:
One Viewsonic 19" CRT Trueflat display with UltraBrite technology.
One old 19" monitor from some old HP my neighbor had.
I'm running these side by side in a nifty multi-monitor setup. I just like having the extra real-estate. I'll put reference images on one side, and I'll draw stuff on the other. It's a hell of a lot easier than Alt-Tabbing. It's also nice to put Media Player on one screen while I run Firefox in the other.
Audio:
Maxell NC-II Noise Cancellation Headphones
They sound good, and when I flip the little switch, I can't hear much else. I like em.
Misc:
Minifridge
Lexmark All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier
Brasso
Steel Beer Flagon
The mini fridge is a little 12 volt, so it doesn't take up much power. It can hold 8 cans of "dew."
The printer is mainly used as a scanner, as I don't print much. That's Ok though, it sucks as a printer anyway.
Brasso. It's metal polish, especially for brass. I use it to repair CDs. I tell you, nothing works better. Just put a little on a soft cloth, and wipe outwards from the center of the CD, out. Rinse it off with water, dry it with a soft cloth, and POW. It'll probably work. If it doesn't, then it's beyond repair.
Steel Beer Flagon. I'll sometimes drink beer from it, but not usually. I have glass pint glasses for that. Now, it just holds pens and such.
And that's my computer setup, now forever immortalised in the hallowed halls of Gaming World.
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