Monday, September 1, 2008

R5-D4 Block 3

Last week I rebuilt my desktop computer, R5-D4. This edition is, in military parlance, R5-D4 Block 3, the third edition of my system.

My old processor and hard drive were destroyed in separate, unrelated accidents. (Don't think too hard, just keep reading . . .)


The specs of the new system:

FIC K8M-800M motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor (2.0 GHz)
1GB DDR memory (Crucial brand)
40GB hard drive (Western Digital Caviar)
64MB VIA / S3 video (Built in to motherboard)
AC97 audio (Built in to motherboard)
Realtek RTL8139 ethernet (Built in to motherboard)

See next post regarding the ordering and shipping of the motherboard and processor.

Everything went together well. I hadn't lost my touch, it seems. Everything worked the first time. I was very pleased.

Since the rebuild, I have had zero hardware problems.

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