So I've just finished putting together my new PC. It was fun, frustrating, and somewhat rewarding This is the first one I've ever built myself, and it was definitely a new and great experience.

Here's all the specs on the new machine. Not too shabby, I must say

-AMD Athlon 2100+ 1.73GHz processor
-1GB (two 512 sticks) of PC2700 RAM
-SOYO Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition motherboard
-Lian-Li PC75 Aluminum case w/15 drive bays and extremely large side window
-Antec True550 power supply (550 Watts)
-80GB Western Digital Caviar Special Edition HDD w/ 8MB buffer
-Windows 2000 w/Service Pack 2
-Floppy drive (hey, it's silver, so it's special )

Those were the new items that made up the new machine. The rest were items from my old Dell that were mostly upgrades to that machine:

-Toshiba DVD drive
-HP 9200i SCSI CDRW
-Adaptec 2930 SCSI card (think that's the model...)
-Iomega ZIP 100 internal drive
-100GB Western Digital HDD (7200RPM)
-ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon


I think that's about it. Hope I didn't forget anything...

Anyway, I'm really enjoying this thing. Despite a cabling problem that had me cursing for about 5-6 hours, the rest of the setup wasn't too bad. Windows has been acting up on me a bit, but I'm not too worried. I just need to get it set up and going.

So that's all! I just wanted to brag a little. I'm sure there's plenty of folk out there with much better machines than this, but this one's mine, so I'm proud of it