Built Myself a New PC...Pics inside....

[ghost28]

so i am kinda new to wrenchin on PCs (specifically Building them)....i have always tinkered with my store bought HPs and Dells...hell i even replaced all the capacitors on my HP Motherboard last month....so the HP that needed a ReCap was about 5 years old and i knew it was time to replace it but i didnt want standard store bought mostly due to the fact that I HATE VISTA..... well after shopping around i found that you really cant buy a decent Dell or HP and have XP installed at the factory so i figured why not....i managed to barter, trade, craigslist, ETc and get killer deals on pretty much every part in it and wound up spending next to nothing out of my pocket...

SPECS
AMD Phenom2 X4 940
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe Motherboard
8gb OCZ Gold DDR2 1066 Running at 800 due to CPU Limitations
2-HIS Radeon 4870 HD Vid cards runnng in CrossfireX
4-WD 640Gb Hard Drives running in a RAID 10 configuration
PC Power & Cooling 750W Silencer Power supply
Samsund 22x Multi DVD Burner With Lightscribe
NZXT Sentry fan controller
Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler
ULTRA all in one card reader/3.5 floppy drive
Cooler Master HAF 932 Case
ASUS 24" LCD Monitor
Razer Death Adder Mouse-(not here yet)
Saitek backlight Keyboard-(not here yet)
Windows XP Professional 64 Bit operating system

i think this ought to do me well for a while.....

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pics show only 2 hard drives as this was prior to the RAID 10 setup with all 4 drives....(just started that last night)

i have to say this was a ton of fun so far....kept me pretty busy over the past couple of weeks gathering parts and building and setting it up...

[bamaboater]

I was going to do the same thing..
How much $$ you have into it ?

[tux974]

G, Is that the new Verado 400 Powerhead :confused: I like the new style V8 ECU and the Red LED strip lighting :D

Looks very nice job from a part time geek :thumbsup: Does it work :eek:;):D

[ghost28]

I was going to do the same thing..
How much $$ you have into it ?

what i have into it and what it would cost to build are two totally different thing...LOL...i made all kinds of trade and barter deals with people on other forums and friends and wound up only laying out about $200.00 cash from my pocket....to build it if you had to buy all the parts and everything probably about $1500.00-$2000.00 with the monitor, keyboard, mouse and all......


G, Is that the new Verado 400 Powerhead :confused: I like the new style V8 ECU and the Red LED strip lighting :D

Looks very nice job from a part time geek :thumbsup: Does it work :eek:;):D

right how neat is that PCU Cooler....i was thinking i am a engine guy i have to have something that says V8 on it in my PC.....

i am going to take ome more pics this week now that its finished...i added a few things and changed some of the cables....

you mean it actually has to WORK????:eek:

[baja200merk]

my friends pretty knowledgeable when it comes to that stuff and he was impressed :thumbsup:

[Strip]

Man that is cool as hell right there!

[whipper]

Man that is cool as hell right there!
:iagree::thumbsup::thumbsup:WOW looks fast!!!

[Scream And Fly]

Looks really good George. Why do you hate Vista? I've found Vista SP1 to be one of the best operating systems I've ever used.

[Denny <><]

Very nice looking. Thats the first PC I've seen that didn't look like the wires and control cables are wire tied. Usually they look like a birds nest in there.

[ghost28]

Thanks guys....

Greg...i have vista on my laptop and its buggy as can be...i am constantly messing with it....from all of my research prior to setting this thing up i got 50/50 reviews...it doesnt network well with the rest of my house which is all XP based and i happen to own a few legit copies of XP so i didnt have to buy an OS...maybe i just got a bad one but the concensus seems to be that Vista isnt the best....maybe i will try and get my hands on a copy of Vista and dual boot the machine to see if i just got unlucky with my lappy...

[fugazied]

That is droolworthy!

Interesting idea placing the power supply down the bottom to make room for extra fan on the top. Great idea!