New PC

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

For those of you that don't know...when I went from Florence, SC to Monroe for the Lan last year, I lost my PC to a leaky U-haul - since then I've made due w/ pos pc's put togather out of free/cheap parts - well today, I put the final cap on my PC - i now have a decent PC - here are the specs...

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Barton Core w/ 512 L2 Cache)
1 GB dual Channel DDR
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 (will be upgraded, bought for $30 off clearence at Best Buy)
Western Digital Special Edition 60 GB Drive w/ 8MB Buffer (will eventually get SATA card w/ Raptor 10k rpm drive as my system drive)
MSI K7N2 Delta-L Motherboard
SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card (I'm a musician that does lost of funky stuff w/ Sound Fonts and stuff - audigy sux for me)
Antec Lanboy Aluminum case w/ 420 watt true blue antec psu and blue cathode light kit.

May not seem much, but I'm proud of it :D

[CajunTech]

Looks perty good to me :)

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

w00t! Congtars MM!!!

[Lt.Dan]

Hey Max, do you use a program called Aida32, if so, what does it say your cpu temp is?? :), just wondering what that program says your temp is , not what your bios says your temp is.

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

Dan, I downloaded the program - looks pretty cool - never heard of it before.

I'm getting 120 no load - sitting idle at desktop after fresh boot, and 131 under load w/ CS minimized and running in the background and sandra's cpu benchmark running...cpu at 100% utilization.

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

Dude! This program Rulez!!!