UpGraded Computer for my Wife

[Bender10]

(Or, It pays to do nice stuff once and a while).....

My wife is a CPA, and with the coming of tax season has been very busy. She does some werk at home (via VPN). She has been running an older AMD box that was not fast enough for my games.

With my new intrest in DC, I decided to upgrade one of my boxes (3800+) to an x2 cpu. So I decided to build my wife a new confuser around my old cpu (3800+) and buy a new cpu for myself.

I was trying to do this low cost but it was still $425 (including an x2 4200+).

I ended up with:
Aspire's Apevia X-QPack case (http://aspireusa.net/product.php?pid=185)
Asus M2N-MX (onboard vid, lan)
1 gig ram
Thermaltake CL-P0200 cpu fan.

The box is a little cheesy, but I don't plan on taking it on the road with me. It has a 120mm fan and a custom size 420w p/s. When I got it together it was real QUIET. No extra junk in the box, a HD and DVD/RW just what I needed for an office environment. It can go on the desktop and not draw attention to itself. I stress tested it last night on Nano, and it maintained a cool 80 F. Not bad for only one case fan.

The grand presentation is today after dinner.

(My old cpu will still be crunching, she just won't be able to hear it ;-)

[drezha]

Those cases look great. I want one now :(

Looks like a nice upgrade. Anyhow, good luck.

[PcManiac]

you should have gone with this! http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2906903&CatId=2020

That is the same mobo as mine, just a better cpu... I can't believe how cheap the FX-60 got! I am going to get one after I pay my dentist lol!

[AMD-USR_JL]

Wow, that's a deal. I had to pay 999 for my 4800+.:icon_redface:

[gatekeeper53]

I got my first 4800 about 9 months ago and gave 325 then my wife bought me several for xmas and gave 275 for them. Now I see a 2.5 GHz Brisbane for AM2 for only 216

[NVM]

oh, you upgraded your computer....:icon_mrgreen:

[Bender10]

The FX-60 put my project off the budget. I just built a dual sli gamer for $1200, and needed to build a good confuser without spending over $150 for a cpu.

I can't see myself building more than 1 'Bleeding Edge' confuser a year, so the rest have to be budget minded. But I think I like the small case. This werked out good. Not much of a savings, but all I need is a HD and some usb ports. Everything else is on my file/music server.

Yeah NVM, I pulled a sneaky. And now I have a cruncher sitting in my wife's office, and she thinks it's so cute (and 1 in my game room, and 6 in the basement...and a 24 port switch that is nowhere near capacity...).

[Nflight]

24 port switch no where near capacity, I see expansion as long as the electric rates remain normal I see a lot more participation from Bender10. Maybe he just might put more on United Devices as he sure is doing a great job so far on that project! ! ! :icon_mrgreen: :blob3: