I am just going to do a preemtive NERD! off the bat. It has officially been a long time since I posted. A number of things have been taking up time and are more important/fun than posting here. But I did recently order my first attempt at building a computer.

• ASPIRE X-Alien Black Case with 420W Power Supply
• MSI "K8N Neo2 Platinum" NVIDIA nForce3 ULTRA Chipset Motherboard
• AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 512K, L2 Cache
• DP SYSTEMS Memory Dual Channel Kit 184-Pin 1GB (512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
• Mitsumi USB Digital Card Reader/Writer W/FD
• Seagate 200GB 7200RPM Barracuda 7200.7 SATA Hard Drive
• NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive, Black, Model ND-3500A
• Dell UltraSharp 2001FP 20.1" Digital LCD

I went with AMD 64-bit processor, as opposed to all the current Intel's which use 32-bits, even though 32-bit Windows currently does not take advantage of it, these processors are still performing very well. For now I am going to go ahead and use the Radeon 9500pro card I have currently for a bit longer. I tried to buy a case that had what I wanted, namely space and 420w power supply, and I ended up with the Alien looking case, it is amazing how many cases there are out there and how stupid 98% of them look, but hey, now I will have blue lights on my computer, sweet!

I took for ever waiting for deals and prices to come down, and it finally started to take over to much of my life and I just bought it, then of course the price dropped by like $30 the next day, Que Sera Sera.

I am pretty excited about the 20" LCD but well see, I will try and review if I get a chance. I have never build one before so we'll see how it goes.