Back in the last week of August I built a new computer and I’ve been meaning to write a post about it. This was the first time I’d attempted to do something like this, sure I’d replaced graphics cards, added more RAM, connected hard drives up and what-not but I hadn’t built it all from scratch before. There were certainly some “OH ****!” moments during the day.
The spec of my machine was (and still is) quite a beast, Overclockers.co.uk had (for some reason) sent me an e-mail offering me a 10% discount on my next order (bet they’re regretting that now, I got £100 or so off my order!) so I was able to get better parts than I originally intended.
Specs
- Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
- Corsair HX 620W PSU
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz Processor
- Nvidia GeForce GTX280 1024MB Graphics Card
- GeiL 4GB 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2 RAM
- Asus Xonar DX Sound Card
- Samsung 1TB Hard-Drive
- Samsung DVD-RW drive
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
