To my regular readers I apologize about the slow postings, or no postings actually. Got home today from work and spent the last 5 hours building my new computer. For those computer nerds out there here are the specifics:
CASE
Linkworld 3210-04-C2628 Black/Silver Metal ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
MOTHERBOARD
ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
PROCESSOR
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 1GHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
CPU COOLER
ZALMAN CNPS7700-CU 120mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan with Copper Heatsink
RAM
CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
POWER SUPPLY
Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 550W Power Supply
GRAPHICS CARD
eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256-P2-N386 Video Card
I used my old harddrives which are a
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 3.5″ IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive – Main drive
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200 GB Hard Drive – Slave drive
Plus my old cd/dvd player:
Pioneer (DVR-108) DVD?RW Dual Layer Burner
And it’s screaming fast.
I’ll be back posting my rants soon.

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It is, but it works great for an air pusher. And it took me a while to convert to liquid. The cost and the worry about a leak frying the computer made me a bit nervous, but since they’ve introduced non-conductive cooling fluids, it’s a bit less nerve racking. Now if i can just figure out how to hook the hosing up through a ‘fridge or cooler to lower the temps even more…