[RadioAstronomer]

I just rebuilt my system (again :-))

Pentium P4B 2.56Ghz (533 FSB)
Swiftech MCX-462 CPU cooler
Gigabyte GA-8IHXP 850E + ICH4 dual channel 1066 (533 bus) rambus with ATA-133 raid, USB 2.0, dual bios, etc.
1Gbyte 1066 Rambus memory
Silver rounded IDE cables
Copper rounded Floppy cable
Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4600
Gigabit ethernet card
Digital video capture board
WinTV video recorder board
Audigy Platinuim with live drive
TDK burn proof CDR-W
16x DVD
LS-120 drive
Two 120Gbyte 7200 RPM Hard drives (raided)
One 80Gbyte 7200 RPM hard drive
Sony SDM M-81 LCD hi-rez monitor
Ultra wide SCSI card
Lian Li aluminuim case with 5 fans and a side window
Enermax 430 watt dual fan power supply
Cold cathode blue lit interior
Intel PC camera
Laser JetIII printer
Cannon USB scanner
Wingman Extreme Joystick
Hp 8 pen color plotter
Full surround sound system
1.44 floppy drive

Will smoke any prebuilt system out there. It is not terribly difficult to build a custom computer. :-)

[Mike Fieschko]

What's hanging off the scsi?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK!
I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP Motherboard.
512mbyte of Corsair 2100 memory
TDK CD-RW 40x something I think
LG DVD Reader
WD 120G 7200 Special Edition w 8m buffer
Zip ATAPI 250 Meg drive
Floppy drive
Tekram SCSI Wide PCI card
Atlas III 10K rpm 18 Gig Drive holding Windows XP PRO
AGP card is an ATI Radeon 8500 All In Wonder DV (64 Meg)
No Raid drives although board supports it
and Sound system is USB Extigy
whenever VIA gets USB 2 drivers out @@@##@****
Creative Inspire 4300 Surround 5.1 speakers (I think )
Monitor is a new 19" Viewsonic P95f
Have a Radeon 7000 PCI card yet to put in
to drive a 17 " Viewsonic PT770 monitor!
Mouse is IBM Optical
Looking at IBM Keyboard

[Robe]

It is not terribly difficult to build a custom computer.

I wholeheartedly agree! This summer I was about to pitch an old Gateway Pentium I That I pretty well gave up on after trying to upgrade the HD & CD. The thing just wouldn’t cooperate, so I put it in the garage to gather dust.
At a flea market one day I spotted a guy with tons of computer stuff for unbelievable prices. After a brief discussion I decided to part with $25.00 for a new mother board ( ide ) capable. Now I did this just for the kicks... I had no intention of using the system if I was successful.
I amazed myself.... after about two or three days with my hands in the guts... Wham it booted up... It was on of the most satisfying things I have ever done.
I will never buy a prebuilt again.. It did wonders for my confidence and my basic knowledge.
PS: I gave the old Gateway system to a kid in my school....You would have thought I gave him a ton of gold... That felt good too !!!!