Long Time, no post

Simple reason:

Not much has happened really

College is shite (duh), the shop is overruning (buh) and i managed to hand some work in on time (huh!)

Charun wise my pally has returnethed to the light by getting a nice sword and a nifty ass shield (+3).

As i have discussed with numerous peeps the technological wonder that is my attic pc has now been deemed: shite.

It was state of the art with its:

1.25 ghz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ proccesser
64Mb Geforce G4 MX440
512 MB of Ram and
80 GB Hard Drive,

about 5 years ago..

My plans are to upgrade it to a monster with:

New Processor :-
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, with 64-bit processing capability, and also MMX & SSE enhancements.

New Processor cooling assembly :-
Heavy-Duty Athlon 64 heatsink & fan. Manufactured by AMD, & ball-raced for low-noise and long-life.

New Motherboard :-
Branded ASUS A8V Socket-939, nVidia nForce3 250 chipset, fast DDR RAM support, USB 2.0, AGP, etc.

Motherboard slots, connectors, and features :-
8 x USB2.0 ports, 1 x Parallel, 2 x Serial, 3 x DDR memory slots, 1 x AGP, 5 x PCI, S-ATA, Sound, Ethernet.

New Memory :-
512 Mb of brand-name PC3200 400Mhz DDR memory, unlocking full Athlon 64 performance.

New Hard-Drive :-
200 Gig capacity hard-disk drive. Fast 7200 rpm version for quick loading times.

New Midi-Tower Case :-
Choice of tower styles, from a selection. All feature front & rear USB ports, and a good PSU.

New Graphics Card :-
256 Mb nVidia GeForce 6600 3D video card, using the AGP port. For leading-edge 3D graphics

And all this for only £550..


I am seriously.. thats almost giving the gear away..