PC 2006
I’ve begun the process of building my next PC. All parts are ordered and I hope to be building it this weekend or early next week. The current PC is over two years old and is beginning to show it’s age.
Here are the specs of my new PC:
Case |
Zalman Fatal1ty ATX Case [FC-ZE1] Built with 5mm pure aluminum 4 x 5¼-in bays / 4 x 3½-in bays (1 ext, 3 int) 1 x 120mm rear + 2 x 92mm front fans Front ports : 2 x USB2.0 / 1 x IEEE1394a / 1 x Mic / 1 x Headphones |
PSU |
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W w/ Cable Management [W0116RU] ATX Power Supply Four 12V rails (60A total) Modular cable management SLI and Dual Core CPU ready |
MoBo |
Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 4 x 240-pin dual channel DDR2 800/667/533 DIMM sockets (max 8GB) 2GHz Hyper Transport system bus On board dual gigabit LAN 2 x PCI-Ex16 / 2 x PCI-Ex1 / 1 x PCI / 1 x AudioMAX slot 1 x floppy port / 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 IDE 3 x internal USB 2.0 (supports 6 ports) / 2 x internal 400 Mb/s IEEE1394 (FireWire400) 4 x external (back panel) USB 2.0 6 x SATA 3Gb/s (supports RAID 0/1/0+1/5/JBOD) 7.1 HD on-board AudioMax (supports S/P DIF in+out) |
CPU |
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 [ADAFX62CSBOX] Dual Core (Windsor 90nm SOI) 2.8GHz / Socket AM2 2 x 1MB L2 cache / 2 x 64K L1 instruction cache / 2 x 64K data cache Integrated 128-bit DD2 memory controller (DDR2-800 support) 2GHz Hyper Transport link 32-bit (x86) + 64-bit (AMD64) instruction set support 1.35v – 1.40v @ 125W max 227.4 million transistors / 230 mm x 230 mm |
CPU Fan |
Zalman CNPS9700 LED Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler Pure copper base and aluminum surrond 2 ball-bearing dual-speed fan |
Video |
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX [BFGR88768GTXE] nVidia GeForce 8800 (G80) GPU PCI-Express x16 / Dual DVI output 900MHz (1.8GHz effective) 768MB DDR3 / 384-bit memory interface (86.4GB/sec bandwidth) 575MHz core clock / 1.35GHz shader clock (36.8 billion/sec texture fill rate) 128 Stream processors / 400MHz dual RAMDACs DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support / HDCP compatible |
RAM |
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4PRO 2GB Kit XMS2 ProSeries Memory 2 x 240-pin DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 DIMMs (64Mx8) Enhanced Performance Profile certified High-efficincy platinum heat spreader / 24 activity LEDs 4-4-4-12-2T (2.1V) certified at 800MHz |
Audio |
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (salvaged from old PC) |
CD/DVD |
Plextor PX-755SA/SW Internal SATA Dual Layer DVD±R/RW CD-R/RW Drive 10× DVD+R DL / 6× DVD-R DL 16× DVD±R / 8× DVD+RW / 6× DVD-RW / 16× DVD-ROM 48× CD-R / 24× CD-RW / 48× CD-ROM |
HDD |
Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA HDD [WD1500ADFD] Serial ATA-150 / 16MB buffer / 10,000RPM 4.6ms read seek / 5.2ms write seek / 10.2ms full stroke seek 1.5Gb/s host-to-buffer / 84MB/s buffer-to-disk |