Late last December, my desktop PC "Fezzik" (the one of "Tiger Direct Sends Me the Wrong PC" fame) decided to very suddenly die -- the victim of a fused, overworked P4 processor giving up after just two years of deficient service. I salvaged the box for parts, keeping the floppy drive, hard drive, DVD-ROM drive, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. The RAM and video card went back to my brother whence they came, and the casing, motherboard, and power supply were discarded on the "free stuff" table in the laundry room, along with the old secondhand CRT monitor -- which I had picked up from that same table. Then I went about the task of getting parts for a new PC through NewEgg. The orders went thus:
MSI MBOX K9N6SGM-V Barebones Kit (included power supply, motherboard, and native video and audio)AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz 2x512 L2 Cache dual-core CPUArctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro fan and heatsink2GB stick o’ RAMAcer 22" LCD mon...
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