Upgrade, The Final Chapter

Again, for those who care:

I spent an hour or so getting everything installed this morning, and then most of the day getting it all working. But that didn't actually surprise me. I was changing most of the significant hardware, and expected to have to jump through some hoops to make Windows happy with the changes.

But a DVD drive that couldn't read my Windows disc any more didn't help, I'll tell ya! A quick trip to pick up a cheap DVD-ROM, and I was back in business.

It's all good now, and I've been checking out the difference all evening.

I went from normally running at minimum settings to keep my machine happy, to where I can now crank the graphics up to max. And the difference is just . . . mind-blowing.

Thanks again to everyone who helped me get through this. Your patience and assistance were invaluable.

Cool, so a 2.8GHz Athlon II X2 240 for the CPU, a 785G uATX motherboard, 4GB of DDR2-800 memory and a 512MB 9800GTX+ for the graphics. Also a new PSU to power it and a DVD drive due to the current one not making the move successfully.

So, it's still the original case and hard drive(s) right? Got to do something about that.

Grin!

Back when I thought the on-board graphics would do the job, I added a 500GB SATA drive to the bundle. I plan to migrate to that, so that's going to take out the old drives, too.

The case stays, though.

It's a black Raidmax Scorpio, as seen here, with multicolor LED fans in the window and rear exhaust positions, a red Cold Cathode in the top, red LED fans in the front, and red LED feet.

Picture (excuse the poor quality — shot without flash to show the lights):



Told ya it was "flashy"!

Do you put it in the window for Christmas?