Plans to Build a Monster!

Since I'm kinda holding down the fort myself here for a while, I thought I'd rant about something stupid... again. I've been meaning to build myself a new computer, since my current "at home" computer is getting really old--five years now! That's probably the longest I've used any one computer for, sheesh.

For a computer case, I'm thinking Coolermaster WaveMaster--that brushed aluminum shit. Ooooh yeah. One of my co-workers has that case for his home computer, so I've had the chance to scope it out in person. I'll also need a power supply for that... Antec TrueBlue power supplies are kinda pricy, so I'll probably get an Antec TruePower instead.

'Course, the case is just the dressing (well, not "just" the dressing, but you know what I'm saying.) I still gotta decide what's goin' in the box. The big question: to go Athlon 64 or not? An Athlon 2800+ XP is only about $170 (all prices Canadian, from Ncix.com), whereas an Athlon 64 3000+ is $252. Athlon 64 also requires a different sort of motherboard. Hmmm...

Where the video card is at, I'm pretty much settled on a Radeon 9800. I'm thinking to go pretty big with the RAM too, just for the hell of it: hopefully nothing less than 1 gig of Kingston Hyper-X Dual Channel memory. That would kick fucking ass.

Ah, decisions, decisions... my pay cheques aren't nearly big enough, hahahaha.