Sounds like a good 'un, Moose.
Newegg absolutely astounds with their ability to deliver, sometimes. I once
ordered at something like 7PM on a Sunday evening, article was at the
office with the morning (ca. 10AM) UPS delivery. Standard (in this case
free) shipping was all I used.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Congratulations, Moose. I will archive your info for guidance when I
> finally bite the bullet.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 1/17/2014 12:38 AM, Moose wrote:
> > It appears I bought this computer in mid 2007. It's served me very well,
> and 6 1/2 years seems to me a good run.
> >
> > It still runs flawlessly; only one part ever went bad, a DVD drive, and
> that seems mechanical, so I might be able to
> > fix it. But it's IDE, so I probably won't even bother opening it up.
> >
> > But technology has left it behind, 32 bit, so only 3 GB of useful
> memory, SATA 1.
> >
> > In the past, I bought Systemax semi custom boxes from TigerDirect, but
> that is gone. Searching for custom built boxes,
> > it seems they are all gamer oriented. A couple won't even configure a
> system without a video board, or two, or three.
> > For PS, one needs no more than the video GPU on the processor chip. The
> spread between component costs and completed
> > price seems to have skyrocketed.
> >
> > So I bit the bullet, and ordered a bunch of bits. In the past, much
> would have been from Amazon. Now that they collect
> > CA sales tax, cherry picking a couple of items to save a very few $
> didn't seem worth the trouble.
> >
> > I ordered everything from Egghead, and wow, they sure deliver! Order
> completed about 1:47 pm Tuesday. Boxes sitting
> > inside my front gate before 5:45 pm Wednesday. Less than 28 hours!!
> >
> > We were leaving for the evening when we found the stuff. I opened the
> boxes last night, but didn't really get going til
> > about 12:30 today. I took my time, and only made a couple of very minor
> errors in order that meant undoing anything. I
> > did stop for things like eating, checking email and my daily meditation.
> >
> > Booted up first try! By about 9 pm, I had a fully functioning Win 7
> machine, with antivirus and ZA firewall installed,
> > browser and internet access. Since then, Windoze has been installing
> updates, like 130 of them. Installing updates is
> > taking longer than installing Windoze, which was quick and easy.
> >
> > I'm not sure when I last built a box from scratch. I've done everything
> else, updating adding, replacing everything up
> > to a motherboard over the years. It seem that the process is actually
> easier than before. I bought box, power supply and
> > front combo box with card reader, USB connectors and eSata all from
> Rosewill brand, and they fit together perfectly.
> >
> > There's still a long road ahead of installing software. I have an
> apparently endless list of stuff installed on this old
> > box, and want to install only what I need now.
> >
> > I can hardly wait to use PSCC on the faster, four core Intel, Samsung
> 840 EVO SSD and 16 GB of memory!
> >
> > I was originally going with a 250 GB boot drive and 1 TB mechanical
> drive, but $60 off on the 500 GB drive meant I could
> > simply go with one drive for normal computer stuff and have lots of room
> for the same price. I've gotten along with a
> > 256 GB boot drive 'til now ...
> >
> > I also have a 128 GB SATA 3 SDD for PS cache and image files I'm working
> on. The 3 TB primary image storage drive will
> > migrate when I get PS going. Other big stuff, scanned images, video, etc
> is on eSATA external drives. (I made sure to
> > get a motherboard with 8 SATA headers, so I will have eSATA connectors
> front and back.) :-)
> >
> > Here's the semi-intelligible list of bits:
> >
> > MB ASROCK|Z87 EXTREME4 LGA1150 R
> > PSU ROSEWILL|RD500-2SB 500W RT
> > CPU INTEL|CORE I7 4770K 3.5G 8M R
> > SSD 500G|SAMSUNG MZ-7TE500BW R
> > CARD READER ROSEWILL | RDCR-11004 R
> > MEM 8Gx2|GSKILL F3-1866C9D-16GXM R
> > MS WIN 7 PRO SP1 64-BIT 1PK - OEM
> > CASE ROSEWILL|CHALLENGER RT
> >
> > Faster Than A Speeding Moose
> >
>
>
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