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2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 4MB Cache FSB 1333
Thermaltake Quiet TR2 M21 RX A4021 18dBA
GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard w/630i, DVI, HDMI, PCIEx, 8-Channel Audio, LAN, 4xSATA, 2xDDR2, 1333FSB)
4GB PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz Memory
160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA300
20X Samsung SH-S203N SATA Lightscribe DL DVD±RW DVD-RAM w/Nero
256MB nVidia GeForce 7200GS GDDR2 PCI Express DVI/Tvout
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
CoolerMaster Black Elite-330 case
550watt Cooler Master eXtreme PS
And just because I'm Old School...a 1.44 Floppy Drive

I was mainly interested in updating the setup I already had. I'll be slaving my existing 250 Gb HDD onto the new MB which has an IDE interface. Plus a 500 Gb USB drive for snaps and clones, I'll have almost a Tb of storage.

I upgraded from a PIII-133Mhz FSB w/786 Mb RAM that has been a workhorse for 8 years.

I'll likely own a Mac someday. But for the foreseeable future, Winders and Linux do me just fine.

I'll likely own a Mac someday.

I said that for a couple of years... I just purchased my first Mac. Windows was always good enough for me, until... Vista. I made the mistake of purchasing a really nice system with Vista. It's really slow. The system is a dual 3.2 Ghz with 3 Ghz of RAM, TV tuner, upgraded graphics card and some other parts.

Before that, from newegg.com I built a 3.2 Ghz system with 4Gb of RAM and a Terabyte of disk space, a TV tuner, updated graphics for ~$1200... and I put XP on it. It was a nice system! But then I put Fedora Core 6 on it and it really flew!

I think Vista has a nice GUI look and seems fairly stable. It's just really slow considering the hardware.

I'm now switching our Windows systems out for Mac. The wife will get a 24 inch iMac, the kids a 20 inch iMac and I'll probably get the Mac Pro one of these days. For now the 17 inch Mac Book Pro I'm using is really nice... and it's real Unix underneath!