Spent some time this weekend helping to get my friend's new PC up and running. Unlike most of my upgrades over the past few years, this was a new system altogether; that's always an experience in itself.
We would have done this long ago, except that the parts that my friend wanted were not really available all in one shot. He was even thinking of ordering a motherboard and a graphics card from a dealer in Kolkata... but finally we got everything out here in Bangalore.
His new system is an Athlon64 3200+ with 512MB x 2, 120GB SATA disk, MSI Platinum motherboard with SLI (though I don't think he's ever going to use that feature) and an MSI 6600GT graphics card (with 128MB of DDR3 RAM). Cost him a lot of money, come to think of it. Putting the heat sink onto the CPU was a nightmare in itself, I kept thinking that the plastic arm would break off altogether. Then we had a lot of fun opening up the front of the case to put together the front-USB ports, one works while the other one doesn't. His cabinet has openings for USB at the top as well, but we didn't put anything there yet.
Got myself a new monitor too: http://www.samsung.com/in/products/monitors/CRTMonitors/professionalrange/997df.asp
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