Hi, I' new to CH so I thought I'd introduce myself. My username is philkacz, but PK will do. I have an A.A.S. degree in computer repair (hardware) from our local community college, and worked for 7 years for a local computer sales and service company, until the boss drove me crazy and I quit!!! Never felt the need for the "latest & greatest," just like a good, quick, dependable machine. The last 'store bought' PC that my wife and I had was a '96 IBM.
My last upgrade is in an old Enlight mid-tower. After swapping in a Cool-Max 450w PS, I added the following:
Asus M2N-SLI MoBo
AMD Athalon 64x2 Dual Core 4600+
2 GB Kingston RAM DDR2
Diamond x1600 Pro 512 PCIE video
on-board audio
WD 80GB SATA
WD 40GB PATA
LG CD-RW
Lite-on DVD-RW
Runs fine, does pretty much everything I need it to. Need to swap the 40GB for another 80 GB SATA so I can do a better backup. Used Ghost a lot when I worked for that company, so 'cloning' the HDD once a week would work for me.
Later I'll post what I have in my wife's machine, this is the first time hers is actually a little faster than mine, but she really does more with it than I do with mine.
Later,
philkacz
