A few weeks ago I go the go ahead from my wife to build myself a new computer. I have been rocking a P4 at home for quite some time…so long in fact that I just started using my work laptop as my home computer. It wasn’t horrible but definitely time to upgrade. I knew I wanted to keep the cost down even though I think I could have gotten my wife to agree to nearly any reasonable price and I knew I wanted it to be FAST!! 
 That is a relative term but the items I did purchase SEEM very very fast to me. It would blow my mind if I were to get all the high end stuff .
Case:Â Â Â Â Ultra X-Blaster ATX Black Mid-Tower Case
Power Supply:Â Â Â Â Ultra LSP550 550-Watt Power Supply
Memory:Â Â Â Â Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400
Processor:Â Â Â Â AMD Phenom 9500 Processor
Motherboard:Â Â Â Â Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard
Hard Drive:Â Â Â Â Seagate 500GB Serial ATA
Video Card:Â Â Â Â XFX GeForce 7600 GT (already owned)
Operating System:Â Â Â Â Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit (already owned)
Total:Â $374.98 + Tax/Shipping
I thought that price was pretty darn good. By the way, I don’t have all 5.9′s on Vista’s experience rating, I only have 5.9′s on everything except graphics. I have 5.5 there but will hopefully be able to get a 9800GT Video Card here soon which will put me up to 5.9′s  The operating system was free because I let Microsoft spy on my Windows XP machine for a few months. In return, they gave me a copy of Vista Ultimate 32/64 Bit.
#1 by Ace Frye on December 19, 2008 - 4:32 pm
Nice, very nice. How much RAM do you have in the box?
What are you going to do with the old box?
I’m running at a 5.5 Vista experience level.
#2 by Ace Frye on December 19, 2008 - 4:34 pm
My bad, ha, I’m seeing now that says 4096MB. Not bad dude.