I finally finished building my test PC:

Asus M2N-E SLI motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ EE
Corsair DDR2-RAM Kit 4096MB
Asus Extreme N8600GT Silent 256MB video card
DVD+R/+RW SATA LG GH20NS DVD burner

Purchased a BFG 9800GTX w/512MB of frame buffer space for $199.99 at Fry's.

Now I need to get an upgrade on my old dedicated sli ps unit which I have on order now, the Thermaltake W0158RU.

Apparently these GPU's require around 24~26a of current

Bought a AMD Radeon HD 4870 to replace my NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT.

Stuck it in last night and watched Dexter S2/Heroes S2 last night so didn't do any benchmarking or play any games to test it out.


Also bought 2 WD Velociraptors the week before last and put them in RAID1 to replace my single WD Raptor and WD 500gb drive.

These Velociraptors are fast!

Adding onto my recent Graphics Card purchase I also did the following:

Antec Quad-Power 1KW PS Unit.

Trendnet 8-port Gigabit Switch with dozen CAT6 Patch cables of various lengths and colors.

And not really something I purchased unless you count the Intel Gigabit PCI NIC, but I was given a Maxspeed Thin Client awhile back for free and created a pfSense VPN Router out of it.

If anyone has ever used this distro before then you know it's based on BSD and some Monowall technology.

Now I need to tweak it some more

I just bought a WDElements external hard drive with 1TB storage for backups. Finally, I can make a full backup of both drives in my PowerMac G5

Just a recent purchase for my Pimp Daddy Gaming Rig.

MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard, ATi/AMD 790FX Chipset

AMD Phenom Quad Core, 9850 Black Edition

Corsair Dominator, 4GB RAM Kit, DDR2/800 Memory Modules, 2 x 2GB Modules

Windows Vista Business, x64 Bit Edition

Seagate 500GB, SATA HDD's, ES Models x 2

Now Dual-Booting with XP Pro 64-bit Edition and Vista on two separate HDD's.

Amazing how much faster my frame rates are already, Fallout 3 looks fantastic

I just purchased an Acer Aspire One 150L netbook along with an external LG GE20 DVD writer.

I bought today a Huawei E160 3G modem

Finally, my MacBook Pro 17" arrived. I waited 2 months for this machine.

I bought this week a WD My Book Studio 1TB external Firewire800 harddrive and new software.

VMware Fusion
Office 2008 Update
Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Design Premium Update
Toast 10 Titanium

I purchased a Seagate Free Agent External USB, 1.5TB HDD.

I really needed some extra storage space and CostCo had them for cheap

well .... i bought a new laptop .. HP... CQ40 ... but there's sth wrong with it .. so sad ..

Bummer, here's to getting this replaced promptly then

I also upgraded my gaming rig, installed some more memory for a total of 8GB's of DDR2/800 using all Kingston HyperX sticks.

I then got a pair of Samsung, Spinpoint, 1TB SATA drives and installed them on the remaining onboard SATA ports and then created a 2TB RAID Zero array. Installed Windows 7 RC1, 7100 and away I went.

Dual Booting with Vista x64 on one RAID Array and Windows 7 on the other array...

Bought 6 2TB HD's to replace the 6 1TB HD's in my home file server.
Went from ICH10 RAID5 to ZFS RAIDZ2


Also went from Windows 2008 Server to FreeNAS.


Finally finished copying 4TB of data back to it last night.

How's tha new RAID controller working out and the FreeNAS ???

Are you using gigabit LAN or fiber channel ???

Using the onboard SATA controller but just using it for ports not for RAID.


Using gigabit on both the server and my desktop.


I briefly thought today that something was wrong with the server because file transfers were extremely slow. Turns out it's the POS NIC in the XPS M1330. Compared it to another E5400 laptop and my desktop and file transfer were normal. I've noticed this same behavior previously with two other XPS M1330's.

More Apple software:

Mac Box Set (with Mac OS X 10.5.6, iWork '09, iLife '09)
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Hey Philip, if you are going to post Mac stuff then I guess I have to post my Amiga stuff too, hehe

Just purchased another motherboard to try out, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H.

Just a nice mid-range 790GX Motherboard with the SB750 Southbridge.


I'm going to use my older MSI board for my fathers upgraded system soon, just need to get a decent CPU, PS Unit/Case and GPU.

Just bought the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 Socket 1136 motherboard along with the new Intel Core i5 processor and 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 memory.

Didn't get anything this weekend, but hopefully a new keyboard and mouse

Bought 2 1GB PCI express cards for my XPS M1330 (Only has 100Meg NICS that are flaky as hell).

File transfers to my server are now fast and reliable!



Thinking about getting that ATI 5870.....

Good job on replacing the faulty nic's and I've been looking at the new Radeon Cards too

I just bought another 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 memory kit and two Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDDs for my i5 system