We can rebuild it. We can make it stronger...

A while back my PC decided to stop being a PC and become a POS. Like so many things and people, it was electrocuted in it's sleep.

Or so I thought.

I just had a buddy from work check out the hard-drive and miracles of miracles it's intact. It turns out it was my new CPU that crapped out. Everything else is 5x5.

So rather than go ahead and blow like, 5K on a sweet-ass gaming rig, I'm content to rebuild the system around my necromanced hard-drive, existing 2.4 P4 and the ATI 800XL 256MB video card that never ever worked in my old rig with the exception of one tantalizing hour of Battlefield II. So, after an hour or so on tigerdirect.com and for about 10x less dineiro than my dream rig, I've got a pretty new system. It's not GeForce7000 dual SLI new, but whaddya gonna do.

Here's what I got -

1
ULT31368
Ultra Blue Dual 12" Cold Cathode Light Kit (trickin out the rig...)

1 ULT31048
Ultra 3.5" Hard Drive Cooler w/2 60mm LED Fans BlK

1 A455-1028E
Asus P4P800E Deluxe Socket 478 Motherboard (8x faster FSB...nice)

1 C250-1144
Cables Unlimited Blue UV System Slot Turbo Fan (to cool down the ATI pig)

1 C13-2920
Corsair Value Select 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz (brings the total to 1.5GB)

1T925-2070
Thermaltake Armor Alum Silver Full Tower w/ Window (this is a gorgeous case and I will name it something retarded for sure. Suggestions welcome)

1T925-2084
Thermaltake Silent PurePower 680W ATX PSU + EPS (you better not die on me like that weak ass Antec CPU)

And that is going to go with my 2.4 Ghz p4 and the aforementioned 256MB ATI 800XL AGP card. Is it a monster? No. It is Division I, but like Atlantic 10 Division I, not the ACC. The case is kick ass though and has plenty of room for more storage, the mobo is easily upgradeable to a 3.2 Ghz P4 and I can always throw a little more RAM at it. I'm pretty set.

Poor Clarisa... she is about to become a gaming widow for a few weekends until the buzz wears off.