Stevennoland
Limp Gawd
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I have gotten the itch again! It's time to build another system. Before I get into the details, I thought a little history was in order. This is the first time I have posted a build on any site so please bear with me on the symantics. The very first system I built from the ground up was completed in April of 2002. Here are a couple pics.
Nothing fancy by todays standards:
P4 2.0GHz
1 GB PC800 RAMBUS (a lot of memory for that time)
GForce 4 Ti 4600 (expensive for it's day)
WD 120GB 7200 8MB (These were the first drives with 8MB cache)
Lian-Li PC60 (I think ?)
Round cables, oooooh (these were also just comming onto the scene)
CD-RW drive (recordable DVD drives had not hit the sceen yet)
Windows XP Pro (another oooooh)
Today I use it to do my budgets and type up papers (I don't have MS Office on Beast II).
My inspiration came from a copy Of Maximum PC I saw on the newsstand. I was lucky in that the Beast (named for the size of Lian-Li cases) fired up the first time, and Windows installed without a hitch.
I completed Beast II about 1.5 years later. The next post will highlite that system. The following post will chronicle the development and building of Beast III. Stay tuned!
This post is also a test.
Nothing fancy by todays standards:
P4 2.0GHz
1 GB PC800 RAMBUS (a lot of memory for that time)
GForce 4 Ti 4600 (expensive for it's day)
WD 120GB 7200 8MB (These were the first drives with 8MB cache)
Lian-Li PC60 (I think ?)
Round cables, oooooh (these were also just comming onto the scene)
CD-RW drive (recordable DVD drives had not hit the sceen yet)
Windows XP Pro (another oooooh)
Today I use it to do my budgets and type up papers (I don't have MS Office on Beast II).
My inspiration came from a copy Of Maximum PC I saw on the newsstand. I was lucky in that the Beast (named for the size of Lian-Li cases) fired up the first time, and Windows installed without a hitch.
I completed Beast II about 1.5 years later. The next post will highlite that system. The following post will chronicle the development and building of Beast III. Stay tuned!
This post is also a test.