I'm hellishly proud of my rig. Building it yourself, just gives you +5 to your Pride attributes
I've been building machines constantly for years, but as school approaches, i've had to slow down my works.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, i would just like to add that there is NOTHING wrong with Windows Vista. On up to date hardware, its a dream. In fact, directx 10 games look fantastic
I've included some snaps of the case, and main monitor. 17" wasnt present at the time.
As it stands now, these are my PC Specs:
Case: Antec Nine Hundred (FANS: 1x200mm, 4x120mm, 1x120MM PSU)
PSU: Antec TrueControl 2.0 550watt PSU
MOBO: DFI LANPARTY ut nF4 SLI-D
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2.4ghz) s939, 2mb L2
RAM: 2gb Kingston HyperX PC-3200
GFX: ASUS Geforce 8800GTS 640mb
SOUND: Creative Labs X-FI XtremeMusic
SPEAKERS: Sony MHC-GX570XM (2.1, 570 watt, 175watt RMS bass)
HEADPHONES: Sennheiser HD477
HDD1: Western Digital Raptor 150gb 10k RPM, 16mb cache, NCQ enabled.
HDD2: Western Digital Caviar 160gb 7200 RPM, 8mb cache
NOTE: RUNNING MAX RES IS DUMB. Just crank AA 8x/16x and ANISO 8x/16x
Display 1: Toshiba 32HL57, 32inch LCD/TV, res= 1360x768 no scaling
Display 2: LG Flatron L1719S 17inch LCD, res= 1280x1024 no scaling
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming keyboard
Mouse: Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 (wired edition, better feel)
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit (free, i WORKED for Microsoft, my whole department (120~ folks) was laid off last month)
MISC: External usb generic 250gb harddrive.