Group photo. Absent: speakers, webcam.
2 x XpertVision GeForce 8800GT Super+ 1GB
Asus Striker II Extreme Motherboard
Razer Lycosa keyboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 2.66 GHz stock speed
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1800 MHz RAM, with Dominator Airflow fan
Zalman ZM850-HP 850W PSU
Antec Nine Hundred case. Perfection itself.
2 x Samsung 2243BW monitor
Logitech MX400 mouse
Sony 20x DVD-RW drive, WD Velociraptor 300GB, WD Green Power 500GB
Motherboard out of its box
Case, from left.
Case, from right-ish.
Dual 80mm fans on the front for air intake
Asus I/O board
Apparently I'm part of some country with a president now.
The beginning of the installation
CPU, RAM installed.
Check it out... WD Velociraptor 300GB 10,000 RPM HDD
The Antec Nine Hundred case comes with modular drive bays, easily removable and switchable.
A few more components, a few more cables
Check out the beastly chunk of cabling you get with the Zalman power supply.
Big black boxes are manly!
PSU, Video Card added.
Cable management started to become an issue.
Don't tell anyone, but we hid heaps of cables above the DVD drive. Shhhhh.
Close-up of the Dominator Airflow fan.
Look at all those cables...
Look at those cool blue lights.
All right, it all looks pretty good, all the bits seem to be in place.
Uh oh...
That's more like it...
There's the BIOS.
That says it all.
We got through a clean install of Vista.
Look at that pristine desktop.
Lookin' good.
Drivers to the rescue!
That's more like it.
Action shot!
Here she is, circa July 13. Currently at 2.95 GHz, with a 3DMark06 score of 12453. Must... break... 12500... mark.
