As the story goes I once had a Pentium D based rig. Now I had been planning to go C2D ever since those jaw dropping benchies awhile back...but cash and time are not always easy to come by...moreover taking work home is becoming a pain in the posterior so the fact that everyone @ office knew vandy 
didn't have a PC in mumbai (well minus a couple of components anyways) worked in my favour...
So what did I do with the PC. well gave it (sold for throwaway prices ) to a very close friend of mine (we've been friends from school) fellow jabalpurians working in the big M. Finally I got the Antec SLB over to his place after a couple of weeks of delaying, and his rig was under way...
This is his first PC, he has never been to TE, probably doesn't know the difference between a 8800GTX and an FX5200, but he's a great friend, and he loves Max Payne!! In fact all he was concerned with was whether Max Payne 2 and Painkiller would run on this antique
I plan to take over all the new games next week and make a believaa outta him!!
Specs:
Pentium D920
1 GB OCZ gold ddr2 800
x1800xt 512
250 GB HDD (brand new)
Viewsonic 17" widescreen (brand new)
Antec TP550W SLI
Antec SLB
LG 18x DVDRW (brand new)
Here are a few shots of the assembling in progress (remember it was a weekend and we were in a party mood so the pics aren't exactly organised) -
all the ingredients:
holy trinity mobo, cpu, memory:
Drives (the ring is mine and shall henceforth follow all pics I post, sorta like windwithme):
Loaded but not locked:
finishing touches:
All done (What more do you see hint hint )
windows xp here we come:
The actual adventure was the part when yours truly a very occasional fan of the bad stuff had a couple of whisky/cokes and bent 4 pins on the 775 socket...My friend started sweating when I explained what the possible repurcussions could be (this was after initial jests about my clumsiness ) I managed to get em straight after just 5 minutes with a screw driver...modesty at its best
We ended up at Pop tates malad after that...met a couple of prime candidates for vandalism and well, the rest as they say...are shots in the dark!!!
didn't have a PC in mumbai (well minus a couple of components anyways) worked in my favour... So what did I do with the PC. well gave it (sold for throwaway prices
) to a very close friend of mine (we've been friends from school) fellow jabalpurians working in the big M. Finally I got the Antec SLB over to his place after a couple of weeks of delaying, and his rig was under way...This is his first PC, he has never been to TE, probably doesn't know the difference between a 8800GTX and an FX5200, but he's a great friend, and he loves Max Payne!! In fact all he was concerned with was whether Max Payne 2 and Painkiller would run on this antique
I plan to take over all the new games next week and make a believaa outta him!!
Specs:
Pentium D920
1 GB OCZ gold ddr2 800
x1800xt 512
250 GB HDD (brand new)
Viewsonic 17" widescreen (brand new)
Antec TP550W SLI
Antec SLB
LG 18x DVDRW (brand new)
Here are a few shots of the assembling in progress (remember it was a weekend and we were in a party mood so the pics aren't exactly organised) -
all the ingredients:
holy trinity
mobo, cpu, memory:
Drives (the ring is mine and shall henceforth follow all pics I post, sorta like windwithme):
Loaded but not locked:
finishing touches:
All done (What more do you see hint hint
)
windows xp here we come:
The actual adventure was the part when yours truly a very occasional fan of the bad stuff had a couple of whisky/cokes and bent 4 pins on the 775 socket...My friend started sweating when I explained what the possible repurcussions could be (this was after initial jests about my clumsiness
) I managed to get em straight after just 5 minutes with a screw driver...modesty at its best We ended up at Pop tates malad after that...met a couple of prime candidates for vandalism
and well, the rest as they say...are shots in the dark!!!