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When Lynn and I returned from the Michigan tournament a couple of weeks ago we found out that our computer had been hit by lightning, fried the cable modem and got the motherboard on the Gateway.
So I started shopping for a replacement, Dells and Gateways looked good but what I wanted was looking at a $2700.00 price tag with shipping and everything so I looked into building my own.
Searched the web for sites and found several that showed how to do it, so decided to tackle the job.
Went to a shop in Beavercreek and bought all the stuff and started Friday assembling it put the OS system in it last night and today I'm making my first post with it, very cool the thing just rips while on the internet.
I have a tower with two cooling fans both 5 in, thermostatic controled with rpm speed controls, as the case gets warmer they ramp up and down to cool, not noisey at all very surprised at that, the motherboard is a Pentium 4 2.8 gig with an 800 fsb and 512 of ram,120 gig of hard drive, has a dvd burner and cd burner and a sound card that will rock the house with the 4x1 speakers that I have.
Very happy with it and the best thing is I built it myself and the thing actually works, so far no problems, I have $1000.00 dollars invested so if you really like a challange and you think you can't do this then think again, if I can do it anybody can, this is my first post with the new system, been using the one at work since the storm, just wanted to pass on the information and the savings if anybody is looking into a new system.............Doc
So I started shopping for a replacement, Dells and Gateways looked good but what I wanted was looking at a $2700.00 price tag with shipping and everything so I looked into building my own.
Searched the web for sites and found several that showed how to do it, so decided to tackle the job.
Went to a shop in Beavercreek and bought all the stuff and started Friday assembling it put the OS system in it last night and today I'm making my first post with it, very cool the thing just rips while on the internet.
I have a tower with two cooling fans both 5 in, thermostatic controled with rpm speed controls, as the case gets warmer they ramp up and down to cool, not noisey at all very surprised at that, the motherboard is a Pentium 4 2.8 gig with an 800 fsb and 512 of ram,120 gig of hard drive, has a dvd burner and cd burner and a sound card that will rock the house with the 4x1 speakers that I have.
Very happy with it and the best thing is I built it myself and the thing actually works, so far no problems, I have $1000.00 dollars invested so if you really like a challange and you think you can't do this then think again, if I can do it anybody can, this is my first post with the new system, been using the one at work since the storm, just wanted to pass on the information and the savings if anybody is looking into a new system.............Doc