New Computer

I've been building a new computer. It's been a while since I did this and I forgot how much I like tinkering around with this stuff. I had an old case from my really old P3 750 machine, but I got all new parts.

• Motherboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
• Processor: AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.21GHz
• Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA
• Memory: 4GB Crucial DDR2 memory
• Video card: XFX GeForce 8600 GT 512MB
• Monitor: Soyo 22in widescreen LCD
• DVD Writer: LITEON 20x writer with Light Scribe
• Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech S510 cordless keyboard and mouse

I ended up making 5 trips in all.

1. Initial trip
2. CPU fan. The sales guy gave me the wrong fan on the first trip
3. I forgot to buy memory
4. The power supply was too old and did not match the motherboard.
5. New keyboard. The really cheap keyboard I had laying around was not quite worth what I had paid for it.

I initially tried installing Vista 64, but I got a bluescreen on the first reboot of the install and tried Vista 32 instead. I got a free version of Vista from Microsoft for taking part in a software usage program they started last year. So far, I'm pretty happy with the setup. My only problem appears to be with the NVidia networking chipset. The motherboard has two ethernet ports and it seems to get confused on some reboots. Switching which port the cable is plugged in fixes it. Disabling one of the network interfaces doesn't seem to stop this from happening. This is still an issue in progress.